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"I need to take my own blame and my own responsibility on the things that happen," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Estonia has its own suspicions about Russian attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Experts have consistently rejected those claims — including in their own filings before the high court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
An A.I. that can refine its own code—what experts call recursive self-improvement—could also outsmart human efforts to control it.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
“You can’t stop me from helping my own grandchild!”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
It would require firms like Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to give users the option of turning off algorithms that tailor recommendations to their personal taste.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Rockhopper, which owns a partial stake in the Sea Lion project, has also not yet commented on Milei's statement.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
In his view, the company owns a set of “extremely attractive assets” and can capitalize as artificial intelligence increasingly gets deployed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The newly merged Paramount Skydance, which owns the franchise, is currently facing a legal battle over its attempted merger with Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mum's friend Yasmin Morton-Bagot owns La Boîte aux Mille Surprises, but Mum manages it with an assistant called Agnes.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Later last year, an entity owned by Tahnoon and his co-investors became a major shareholder backing a new U.S. bank that World Liberty is preparing to launch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The company is owned by local business people with long experience in the renewable electricity industry.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
They are the second-most owned pet, behind dogs, in the United States, with nearly 33% of U.S. households having at least one cat, according to the American Veterinary Medical Foundation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
On a sector basis, only semiconductors are meaningfully owned, mostly as a consequence of ASML, while investors are shunning automakers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Many people in Ikuma owned them and believed that they could change the weather by cutting it into pieces, just as they wished it to be.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
“You should not expect me or anyone else to make this token more valuable for you. $LAPTOP isn’t just about owning something, it’s about saying something.”
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Once she worked her way up to owning three pairs, she felt rich.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It added that its purpose would be to "help Wales reduce energy costs over time by developing and owning renewable energy assets" and "supporting local and community ownership, investing in smart local energy systems".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Indeed, the typical path to $10 million and up comes from owning a company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
To the Americans, owning and controlling property was the difference between freedom and slavery.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
