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At least this is a lesson Tuchel did not have to wait too long to learn after the World Cup.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
You can learn more and vote here, plus read some delightful bios on the bears in the running or peruse its hall of champions.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Stafford said all players must learn to move on from their mistakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Nieuwenhuijsen was intrigued by the case because she hoped to learn more about the painter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Because if you don’t learn how to work with your partner, you fail.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Jo learns to her dismay that she might have to surrender her precious friendship bracelet, whose charms represent her history with Raissa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
She said she "learns faster" in the practical subject and most teenagers want to do something they enjoy alongside core academic subjects.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The mind learns that disconnecting can allow a person to get space from the sensations, emotions, or experiences that are painful or overwhelming.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Everyone who studies chemistry beyond GCSE, or equivalent, learns about it."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
“He seemed nice otherwise. I hope he learns a lesson from this.”
From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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De Villiers argues that the new findings show how much remains to be learned about the plant's non-cannabinoid chemistry.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Primetime” isn’t a film so much as it is a final exam testing what we’ve learned over the last 20 years.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
They have a proper catch-up roughly once a week, and she has learned not to take it personally if she doesn't hear from them.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Jenny, who had learned she was a mutation carrier, could not acknowledge it when she began to change, even after a doctor made her diagnosis plain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Then a prison boredom—which I soon learned to fear above all else— settled over the cell.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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These women - all in their late 20s - grew up watching these stars, but it was only a few years ago that they learnt to study them through a telescope.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
On the intervening night of 8 and 9 June, Satish Salian was called by the police to a hospital where he learnt that his only child was dead.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
"I have learnt so much, I have met people all around the world, and it has been delightful," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
He added: "We've also learnt that cool heads are needed, even in those most horrific of circumstances."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Donne would have learnt from Hill about the possibility of life on other planets, and of planets circling other stars; he would also have learnt that these strange ideas derived from Giordano Bruno.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Those successes have depended on digitally unrolling CT scans and then using machine learning to detect extremely subtle changes in texture or shape associated with ancient ink.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
"They're learning how to leave," she says, "but we're learning how to let go."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Rom-coms and dance movies are often littered with convoluted circumstances, but “Shake Your Booty!” sabotages the heartfelt story it wants to tell about finding new love and learning to let go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Faculty report that some students experience negative feedback as existentially threatening, making it difficult to use criticism as an opportunity for learning and improvement,” the report says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
I was also learning to hold my breath underwater.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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