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"Piracy… is taking up a larger and larger share of the revenues that they would anticipate being able to generate through their subscription models. So yes, it is a worry for them."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
That suggests that Allied’s two key backers stand to generate a substantial gain if the business is sold to SoftBank at $18 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Even as the bird raises its wings during the upward portion of each wingbeat, it continues to generate thrust, the force that helps propel it forward.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Everyday actions generate billions of these nanoparticles, Yan noted, from washing a load of laundry to reheating a dish in the microwave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Seen this way, the structure resembles a spiral staircase with the base pairs forming the steps. helical symmetry, the locations of the atoms in one nucleotide would automatically generate the other positions.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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At the cathode, oxygen reduction generates reactive oxygen species that initiate the oxygen-transfer reaction.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The French semiconductor-materials maker generates revenue from Photonics-SOI—a platform to integrate photonic components on a silicon-on-insulator substrate that are widely used in data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The math gets more appealing at 5.3%, as the same sum generates $106,000.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Ticketing revenue generates less than 20% of our total revenue from The Open," Darbon says.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
If there are exact locations in the brain that allow for the ability to hear or to breathe, is there a place that generates human social behavior?
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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As the barrier weakens, however, toxins and other products generated by gut microbes can travel to the liver.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
The more ROS a plastic type generated, the more damage they observed in the cells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
At a school that has produced a litany of star NFL receivers in recent years, including the Seattle Seahawks’ Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Harrison generated the most chatter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
During its investor day, Anthropic shared that it generated $16.8 billion in the quarter that ended Sept. 30.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
In low tones, she told her husband that there had been “a burglary,” a remark which—repeated by a well-meaning eavesdropper to his neighbor—spread rapidly around the room and generated a flurry of unwanted concern.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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“It’s a foundational study about the chemistry of plastics interacting with the most common chemical, water, and it’s important because it really does show that these things are capable of generating hydroxyl radicals,” Campen said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
But he says it was only for researching roles, tidying up his CV and generating mock practise questions for video interviews.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
“Metro Mining is profitable, generating free cash with a strong balance sheet and will finish the year with a cash balance of A$60 million-A$70 million,” says Shaw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Despite its widespread internet and app use generating nearly a fifth of the world's digital data, India has only about three percent of global data-centre capacity, government figures show.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
“Then one day they stopped. Today more than ten thousand wells remain scattered across the reservation, but they are generally what oilmen call “stripper” wells, each one generating less than fifteen barrels a day.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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