austere
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The next step is bolstering the reliability of communications and data integration systems so AI-powered weaponry can actually help human fighters out in remote and austere conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The term "artificial intelligence" was born in 1956 at an austere summer workshop at Dartmouth College.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
In an austere look at the price of lies, Ms. Hüller plays a 17th-century European woman who first poses as a male soldier and then claims the inheritance of a dead man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
There sits the studio, an austere black cube jutting into the countryside, guarded by a giant sculpture of a gorilla.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Like my parents, Mr. Pirzada took off his shoes before entering a room, chewed fennel seeds after meals as a digestive, drank no alcohol, for dessert dipped austere biscuits into successive cups of tea.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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