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If you’re hoping to learn about what’s on display or how adjacent pieces relate, curb your enthusiasm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Recovery after birth matters, and where women tell us they have not felt listened to, supported or involved in decisions about their care, we expect services to learn from that feedback and act on it."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“It’s creative, it puts defenses in a conflict. Kind of like our players, a lot of excitement to learn everything that Mike knows.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Then there are the cases where a patient pays several thousand dollars, only to learn they owe thousands more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Gertie and the others also learn of a three-month battle on the peninsula of Bataan, which the Japanese won.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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"But, as long as the machine that learns how the dogs react to the sample is very consistent... we don't really mind."
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The schoolboy has been taught a lesson and now we will find out what he learns from it.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The new framework proposes that the brain learns these recurring patterns and stores them within networks of synapses.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
How much and for whom depends on whether Silicon Valley keeps solving the problems it already knows—or learns to see the ones it doesn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul.
From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
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“It’s long, it’s tiring, but it’s necessary,” LaFleur said, adding that lessons learned from McVay have served him and others well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"I have learned to make several plans to survive tough situations," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Leah Cottell, who has been leading the study, said the process had been "incredibly time-consuming" but she had learned a lot.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Sister Schubert’s learned the harder lesson: once invented, we would prefer that you not take it away.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The Army says it is prioritising the training that has been informed by lessons learnt from the war in Ukraine, and is reviewing each request for training on a case-by-case basis.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
For those who never learnt as children, Cole says starting later can feel particularly exposing.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
She found it so effective that she learnt about other breathing techniques and incorporates them into her work as a life coach.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
LIV staff have learnt to put on a brave face.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I learnt a long time ago that when you’re smelling something real good, you only get two or three first-place smells of it afore your nose won’t take no more notice.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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There's also a background questionnaire which asks for information about the students, their homes and their school and learning experiences.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The decline in reading ability is particularly concerning because it is a gateway to learning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Herbert is learning a new system entering his seventh season in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India's tech capital Bengaluru, she is learning to sniff human breath for cancer with a little help from AI.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
It was something I was sure Elliot would start learning about after he broke my mom’s record and became the youngest cadet to level up.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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