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The leading contributor, as my colleague Queenie Wong has reported, is Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who claims to have moved out of the state, which might enable him to avoid the tax.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"I think the institutional regulatory and policy case needs to catch up quickly to protect and enhance our women's players and enable them to perform maximally."
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The US Treasury issued a temporary license Friday to enable Russian diesel to flow to global markets through April 2027.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The spectrum that SpaceX just said it plans to acquire from Grain Management wouldn’t actually enable the company to build a nationwide network.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The money that would enable her to build a better app, which would be so much better in the long run.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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It also enables researchers to explore two potential therapeutic approaches designed to interfere with aggregation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
"What we want is that once that information is shared, the knowledge about that then enables them to have a dignified process," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
This includes a partnership announced last month with Meta Platforms that enables the social-media company’s Muse agent to check out on behalf of customers of Shopify stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“Having a job enables confidence to keep spending despite inflation headwinds,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
It tells you what to measure and enables you to predict, but it provides no answer to the question ‘Why?’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The natural chaparral’s ability to quickly regrow has enabled such a quick fire return interval in the Santa Monica Mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
What began as a technical workaround ultimately enabled the researchers to explore a more interesting version of the phenomenon, one in which matter and the field could participate together in the quantum dynamics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
ZedPay likely enabled sanctioned entities to swap between traditional currencies and crypto, placing it within a “high-risk sanctions evasion network,” Binance’s investigators wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
This was ignored, then overtake mode was reactivated before being disabled again, on the basis that it was fairer to do so than leave it enabled.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Their tenacity enabled 300,000 German soldiers to escape.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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Ruter has since introduced mechanisms enabling it to monitor and delay incoming signals in order to control updates, it said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
I discussed those questions with Gibney, and what they taught him about Musk and our penchant for enabling men like him, in a wide-ranging conversation transcribed below.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Although practical applications will require further development, this atomic-scale approach could eventually help researchers manage both vortex movement and heat flow in future superconducting technologies, potentially enabling more efficient devices that consume less power.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Uber and Lyft didn't fight the unionization push, partly because the enabling bill also reduced the companies’ insurance costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Eventually, people were so smart that they were able to decipher nature’s secrets, enabling them to tame sheep and cultivate wheat.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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