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That raw information allows anyone to run a model on specialized hardware and to build on top of the model, altering its weights with additional data in a process called fine-tuning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
In his 2022 book, “The Network State,” Srinivasan offered a peaceful alternative, saying it is better to build new societies from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Part of it is lighting "cool fires": small, controlled blazes that create a patchy landscape, so fuel does not build up in one area.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
At greater heights, droplet collisions, precipitation formation, and faster updrafts can reduce the total surface area of droplets, allowing supersaturation to build.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
“I will build a shed for meself,” Liam had told me.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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But “there is a fair amount of investment and complex execution still to come,” especially as the carmaker readies its new EV platform and builds out its Ford Energy business.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The vulnerable names are regulated utilities whose growth plans depend on regulators and voters approving higher household bills while the company builds for Big Tech.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"This builds on joint work that has stopped over 44,000 attempted crossings since the election."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
When plaque builds up, it can harden into tartar and trigger chronic gum inflammation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
And then one day perhaps the city returns and rips out the sore and builds a monument to its past.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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“Here where Nature has builded her finest playground, man has added the material things which provide the comforts that make life worth while,” proclaimed a 1921 advertisement in The Times titled “The Great Southwest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Here William Rufus had builded; here Coke and Bacon handed down the Law.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills?
From Time Magazine Archive
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Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly."
From Time Magazine Archive
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We have builded our Camp anew, & as it saith in Genesis, “/ dwell in the Tents of Shem.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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Starting in April, AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic that had been built to hack had left their corporate test-beds and broke into unsuspecting corporations in an unprecedented series of cyberattacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, JPL built Curiosity and leads the mission on behalf of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program portfolio.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Team McCourt has suggested the gondola will be built with private money, perhaps from selling advertising rights, and that rides will be free to Dodger ticket holders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Since the protests began, Modi has increasingly used Instagram -- the platform on which the CJP built much of its support -- to communicate directly with youngsters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The sun was just beginning to set, and the street outside was primitive, nothing more than packed dirt between poorly built wooden houses.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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In late 2025, a little-known Silicon Valley startup bet much of its remaining cash on a lofty goal: building the strongest open-weight AI model it could.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“I think we’d be better off by simplifying things and building a system based on the number of years worked.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The prime minister said Manchesterism was about "devolution" and "taking control of things that affect people's daily lives, such as housing, building more homes that people can truly afford and the buses".
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
It also said the strike had significantly damaged the adjacent outpatient clinic building.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Ben leads the way again, this time around the building.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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