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I say, ‘I’m trying to learn what you want, and I want to make the city work for you. How can I make it work?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
"These are not symbolic things; they are concrete demonstrations of what serious partners do, serious partners train together, learn together, plan together, and build the confidence and competence necessary to prevent conflict," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Five years ago, Gratton says, the safe advice was to learn to code; now, not so much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Giancarlo: The same thing I taught my children: Buy one or two, and learn.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
He was incensed to learn that Father had died right here in Scheveningen; the documents on my case made no mention of it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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"It was a poor reaction from him and you hope he learns and he learns quickly."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The tactic’s efficacy depends on a confused audience, and every person who learns about the acronym is a little bit harder to fool.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Once a person learns the technique, it can potentially become part of ordinary daily movement without requiring continued use of specialized equipment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
There are the now-traditional scenes in which Carrie learns to consciously control her telekinetic superpowers, previously manifested by accidentally setting off car alarms, opening mailboxes and causing a rain of rocks on her parents’ roof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“They’re soft up there. You make sure he learns how we do things in Georgia.”
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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It’s something he learned in school, where he earned a psychology degree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
You might have learned as much from the allegory of the emperor’s new clothes or the discoveries of behavioral economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
As the adventurer is sharing expeditions "live", he said he had learned lessons from the experience going forward.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
She learned that the FDA had recently approved a new copper IUD: the Miudella, the first copper IUD to be introduced in the U.S. in more than 40 years.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Nollie, we soon learned, had been taken to the police station around the corner, to one of the cells in back.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Wanjiru's niece, Esther Njoki, told the BBC that the family learnt of the postponement through the UK embassy and had received no official explanation.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
It was only later that he learnt of Nansi's heroics.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Since the incident we have learnt lessons, and as part of this, we have improved our oversight of the monitoring of medical gases across the maternity unit at Basildon Hospital."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Over 15 days, they learnt to identify stars, planets and constellations, navigate the night sky, operate telescopes and photograph the Milky Way on their phones.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“I have learnt next to nothing, Joe. You think much of me. It’s only that.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Pamela Paul sat in on the class to discover why old-school learning is suddenly so popular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Lakers coach JJ Redick, still mindful that the season is less than a week old, considered the defensive struggles a learning lesson for all coaches and players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
They then applied machine learning techniques to determine whether patterns in the recordings could reveal what each child was viewing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
In a 2023 Hot Ones episode, she said she’s obsessed with learning about wars.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
Us pupils walked in under this switch every blessed morning, and it was to put us in the right frame of mind for learning.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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