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Co-author Talal Aladaileh said that the project's evolution from a classroom exercise into a published paper reflects the rigor, depth, and quality of the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering program at Binghamton.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Nostalgia, one concludes, seeped into stamps long before the current decline of paper mail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Kokotajlo is the co-author of an influential research paper called AI2027 which, last year, predicted AI could wipe out humans by the mid 2030s.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
To minimize conflict concerns, Mare offhandedly volunteers to temporarily work at the Cincinnati Chronicle, the Teller’s sister paper, while some of its staff members are on maternity leave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Along the way, I picked up the Times from a newsboy, then set my basket right down on the sidewalk and opened the paper.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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They later worked together as graduate students at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where they dug through Cold War archives and Soviet research papers about laser fusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The findings are reported in two scientific papers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Losos in his book cites a number of papers on cat vocalizations, and one of his favorites is the work of Nicholas Nicastro and the series of studies that followed up on Nicastro’s research.
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
She tries to keep the desk tidy, but it is always littered with papers, writing supplies, and letters.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
So are the cracks being papered over and how deep does the pothole problem go?
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Ekitike's quickfire double papered over the cracks of another concerning first half performance for Arne Slot.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
The walls were papered with a design of pale vertical strips, like a boys pajamas, which heightened the sense of confinement.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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
They’re just papering over the crushing weight of impending responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
At the moment, the setup is lacking sharpness and Duran’s late goals have been papering over cracks.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
Aureliano Segundo finished by papering the house from the front to the kitchen, including bathrooms and bedrooms, and threw the leftover bills into the courtyard.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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