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There’s an important aspect of specials, the business side of it, that I don’t think enough comics really get to learn until they’re confronted with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“We plan to learn a lot from it, and we plan to make sure that we have the right product for our members,” Stephens said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Reading Festival's organisers are set to learn if their application to allow music on their main stage for a fourth day will be allowed despite residents' objections.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
For years, she read tarot cards for tourists who poured out of cruise ships eager to learn of new loves or fabulous riches.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
It sometimes takes me a while to learn new things, Celia said when we parked on that random side street.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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However, the young woman soon learns that the world of honey isn't as sweet as it seems.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Like millions of families facing cancer, we’ve learned what every patient learns: Hope has a face.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The reader is an outside observer and learns about things in a realistic manner.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
The new Prime Minister learns he has narrow fiscal running room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Respect is the first thing a child learns in a Dinka family—respect for mother, father, aunts, uncles, other children, and animals.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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The late Angelo Gasca prepared his assistants to take over one day and now it’s their turn to show what they learned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
And he later learned he wasn’t alone, when another company service representative called the very next day and told him that roughly 171,000 small nongovernmental organizations “lost everything” in their OneDrive accounts.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
"It's absolutely scandalous," said one of the mothers, Rachel, who recently learned that she received the wrong sperm donor from the clinic.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It couldn’t be learned what investments Walter financed with insurers’ money in the deals under examination by the government, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The dogs always know direction but this was before I learned to trust them—learned to understand that lead dogs know more than the person on the sled.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Diagnosed with autism, Arday says he was non-verbal until age 11 and only learnt to read and write at 18, before becoming Cambridge's professor of sociology of education at 37.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Despite never meeting Saunders, O'Brien said he was someone he had learnt a lot about over the years.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
On Friday evening, Berlin state finance minister Stefan Evers was appointed to replace him as the CDU's lead candidate, AFP learnt from internal party sources.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
"No lessons have been learnt at Pentonville prison, no procedures have been put in place to prevent these deaths," said Saroj.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Did yeh never wonder where yer parents learnt it all?
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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OpenAI says of the young people who use ChatGPT, nine out of 10 use it to help them with learning.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
By learning which environments preserve ancient organisms on Earth, scientists may become better equipped to recognize possible signs of life elsewhere.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Once I got to the LSU beach team and started learning the game and actually playing, I just came to find a new love for the sport,” Rodriguez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The real reason is that the world is learning to live without using as much oil as it used to.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I’m learning, too. It’s not an only kind of thing.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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