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The paper also spotlights the Chief Rabbi's words, who called it "truly a dark day for British Jews".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
But those paper gains quickly fizzled, and the coin was trading at around $1.80 early Wednesday afternoon, a 95% decline.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
A paper published in the same journal issue and co-authored by Professor Maria Vincenzi of the University of Oxford argues that the available evidence still supports ongoing cosmic acceleration.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
That brings us back to the paper by Grumbach and Folsz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
But then the bell rings, signifying the end of my break, and I leave the paper fragment closed in my locker.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Research is ongoing, but many papers have sought to analyze not only the different pitches and tones of the meow, but also how good we — humans, that is — are at understanding them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It said a "confidential interim update" was "shared by mistake in our public board papers".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
In a statement published alongside his papers, Buckmaster said OpenAI had taken up the problem only after word of his research spread, and pursued the same unusual approach he and Alpoge had spent months developing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
He has commonly been described as illiterate, but O'Keeffe uncovered a draft of the memoir among Napier's papers that was written in Byfield's own hand.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
As I shuffle through the random objects in search of a key, the shelves wobble and a stack of papers falls from the top shelf.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Many of his projects remain intact, including the ornamental lake he had dug, and a bathroom papered with a montage of original newspaper clippings chronicling major events from the early 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Yes, we've had things to cheer about - like a couple of trophies over the summer - but that papered over cracks.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Ironically, only Branwell’s room, papered with sketches and poems, looks like an artist’s refuge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
But as someone who was in the chamber for that speech, those affects papered over a frequent incomprehensibility.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
You walk down a hallway papered in playing cards, row upon row of clubs and spades.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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On Monday, the climate-vulnerable Alliance of Small Island States said countries could not keep ignoring "the elephant in the room" and warned that anything short of winding down fossil fuels was "papering over the cracks".
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
“AI is papering over the cracks,” said Stefan Angrick, head of Japan and frontier markets economics at Moody’s Analytics in Tokyo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
There is a likelihood that Kostas Tsimikas will return from his loan spell at AS Roma if Robertson departed, but that would simply be papering over the cracks.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
With laws barring government officials from entering homes without a warrant, the city had little recourse beyond papering the home with violations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024
Where the press fell short, Howard and the Buick management filled in by papering the city with full-page ads and brochures trumpeting every win.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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