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Security Council to consider narrow agreements banning the use of AI for certain tasks, including creating biological weapons.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Because of their small size, these robotic insects could potentially move through narrow spaces that larger drones cannot enter while avoiding walls, debris, and falling objects.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The tachyon chamber turned out to be, essentially, a narrow room.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Its towering, mostly unbroken face and narrow swimming pool suggested a rampart and a moat, but behind the concrete exterior, Caland eliminated every door save the guest bathroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
He charged past me, using the sides of the narrow passageway as a makeshift crutch as he hobbled on his bad leg.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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These include the narrower range of activities and restaurant choices, leaving behind friends and family, and for Brianna the difficulty of settling her children into new schools.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
But new research from Northwestern Medicine suggests the scan may provide its greatest benefit to a narrower group of patients than previously assumed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
During the Covid pandemic, Congress approved payouts to income-eligible tax filers and their dependents only, a narrower approach that would lower the cost further.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
A narrower 240 million subset of just U.S. citizens would bring the cost to $1.2 trillion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The doorway to the stairs was on the second floor at the end of a long hallway in the vacant western wing, the door itself narrower than the rest and the knob rusted from disuse.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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The spread between the two-year and 10-year yields reached its narrowest level since March 2025 on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The five-year USD/JPY cross-currency basis was recently about negative-30 basis points, the narrowest level since the series began in 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
At the narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz and its shipping lanes lie entirely within Iran and Oman's territorial waters.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
It’s important to appreciate that the students pressed for the narrowest, most modest ruling possible.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
But if you grabbed their wrist, the narrowest part of the arm, their hand acted like a stopper and kept them from slipping free.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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However, the gap narrows at Advanced Higher level with a 1.2 percentage point difference between those with and without ASN.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Plaque narrows blood vessels and makes them less flexible, increasing the strain on the cardiovascular system.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Freitas expects the ADRs to trade between at a 30%-35% premium in the very short term before that premium narrows due to limited passive buying for the U.S. paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
If the yen suddenly strengthens further — whether because Japanese authorities intervene or the rate gap between the two currencies narrows — investors could be forced to unwind those positions rapidly.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Mrs. Johnson narrows her eyes and mouth at them but turns back to me.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
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They eventually narrowed the sample to ten high-quality events for which they could reliably determine both the black hole's feeding rate and the timing of its radio outflows.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“We thank the researchers for contacting us and sharing their findings. We narrowed the permissions on Community sign-in tokens and revoked affected tokens and sessions,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The gender gap also narrowed considerably when looking at political preferences among college-educated Latino men and women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The spread between median 6-month CD rates and inflation rates narrowed from last September to this month, CD Valet data showed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Dr. Westminster cocked his head to the other side; the opened eye narrowed, and the closed one opened wide.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Meanwhile, Google Gemini is gaining share on ChatGPT for AI services, Mahaney said, with the gap between the two narrowing to 3 percentage points among survey respondents.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Moonshot's Kimi K3, released this summer, is seen by analysts as the clearest sign yet of that narrowing gap.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
There is the tunnel vision, that narrowing of the entire clamoring world down to 100 yards of grass and a single question of whether the men in my colors will get there.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Businesses from consumer-products maker Helen of Troy to athletic-apparel retailer Under Armour are narrowing the selection of products they sell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
He looked back at her, narrowing his eyes, his black mustache twitching, as if to say, “Don’t even think about making me race.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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