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We’re talking about an enormous bureaucratic organization with 2,000 years of weird and troubled history, whose massive internal contradictions and bitter factional disputes are only partly visible to outsiders.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index has dropped 5.9% in 2026, partly due to uncertainty from the Iran war.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Magyar is partly cutting through the fraught media landscape using social media.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Or maybe not so incipiently, according to maritime analyst John Konrad, in his widely read essay partly titled, “What If the U.S. Navy isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Whewell’s motive for raising the issue in print in 1834 may partly have been that ‘scientist’, unlike ‘man of science’, is a gender-neutral term—he was reviewing a book by the science writer Mary Somerville.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton