demonstrate
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We selected these two prompts to demonstrate the variability of results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Jack said that being asked to go was a "great feeling" and "a real opportunity to demonstrate everything that you've learned".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Budget: He does not support cutting “student opportunities” and said if “the colleges can demonstrate success for the students, enrollment will justify the expense of maintaining the expense of the faculty, the staff, the facilities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"This suggests that they are detecting the particle motion associated with sound even at considerable distances from the source -- something we have not previously been able to demonstrate in free-swimming sharks."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Nico opens another box and starts to demonstrate by playing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using the keyboard, and it sounds exactly like a saxophone.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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Creating digital content for social media to back up a career in stand-up demonstrates that success is completely within the control of comics, she continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He explains rather than simply demonstrates, an instinct that has surprised the coaching staff as much as his football has.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The research also demonstrates why studying shark hearing in the ocean can reveal information that is difficult to obtain in laboratory tanks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
"When I joined police 15 months ago they said to be ready for anything, so I guess this demonstrates that's true!" said Constable Taylor, who escorted the pup.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Freddie demonstrates the shining process on his own shoe.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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Before ascending the ranks of academia, Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff demonstrated against the Vietnam War and earned a literature degree at the University of Pennsylvania.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The second method is more direct, similar to the one used by Hubble in the 1920s when he first demonstrated that the universe is expanding.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
As you have already demonstrated, retiring doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Adalah said Abu Shehadeh's decades of public life as a human rights activist, legislator and party leader demonstrated his "consistent and unequivocal opposition to violence of any kind".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Only Adler had previously demonstrated a clear grasp of the principles of acoustical design.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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“Moneyball” excoriated the bunt, demonstrating in great detail that trading a precious out for an extra 90 feet on the base paths reduces scoring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Riot police have clashed with protesters as thousands of students demonstrating over education standards disrupted more than 700 schools in France on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Here are five charts and tables demonstrating rising prices influenced Americans’ budgets:
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
He has yet to see a paper demonstrating that AI access improves learning outcomes in children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
“They’re talking about petitioning the governor and demonstrating over in Annapolis,” she said.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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