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Yet each new concern reinforces the lesson 9/11 had made impossible to ignore—that the greatest risk is seldom a specific threat we anticipate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nettles folded a 9/11 lesson into a unit on the Columbian Exchange — the trade of plants, animals, culture and disease that began after Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The broader lesson extends well beyond extraterrestrial life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sister Schubert’s learned the harder lesson: once invented, we would prefer that you not take it away.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
She was their governess, after all, and she too had learned a valuable lesson that day.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
And inside their homes, parents find ways to impart their own lessons, translating trauma into family history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
This most basic of lessons has since been largely – although not completely – learnt, and sharing between Western intelligence agencies is infinitely better than it was in 2001.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Yet the investor who was an early partner at Citadel continually draws on lessons from his second undergraduate major: anthropology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Transport Secretary Alexander said earlier on X she was "seeking assurances that lessons will be learned and systems that support aviation are up to the job".
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
He had spent the first half of third grade under the tutelage of a teacher named Mr. Carbine, who had leavened the civics lessons with fun facts about presidents.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
