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Rather, it provides an additional piece of important information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The wall text for each piece, which also includes a QR code for audio narration, is composed by RM in both languages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
However in an opinion piece published Tuesday on the US embassy website, Bozell said: "At this point we find it a useless proposition to continue with endless dialogue leading nowhere."
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
I wrote a piece for the Atlantic in which I said, “The original sin of AI is granting chatbots the use of the first person.”
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Today, she’d slipped me a piece of that cornbread for lunch.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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During a media tour, AFP reporters saw a group of mostly female staff using moulds to make jewellery pieces designed elsewhere.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Did he anticipate being sold out by Jay-Z for personal gain, followed by hit pieces and being dissed in a freestyle many years later?
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
Vanderbilt and Dalton Knecht, the embattled third-year guard who has never found a solid role with the team after he was traded and returned in 2025, could be trade pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Though the war has also depleted the Iranian missile force, Tehran has adjusted by using munitions that split into a number of pieces, forcing defenders to exhaust more interceptors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Floor lights and other pieces of equipment were scattered around sets that were sectioned off into cubbyholes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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It’s a collection of songs pieced together from perfect-seeming snippets heard while passing open doors.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Investigators have pieced together much of what they know about Burke and Hernandez’s allegedly illegal relationship from a search of the singer’s cellphone, which was seized last September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
They pieced together the story of the people she may have painted in Chennai in India, known then as Madras, including the Nawabs of Arcot, the local Mughal rulers.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Ivana helped run a sporting goods store and pieced together a budget for her daughter’s early career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I tried to find him when I was ten years old, and from what I pieced together, I'm pretty certain that he died in some kind of accident involving a cargo plane.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Or is there a point at which an elderly parent owes their adult children enough financial information that they’re not left piecing together a life from scratch?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
But things quickly spiral beyond clear narrative recognition, as piecing together the story becomes a puzzle unto itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
DNA from descendants has become essential for identifying more of the Franklin expedition's dead and for piecing together details of the crew's final attempt to escape.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
By piecing together scattered public clues, large language models can unmask pseudonymous social-media profiles with surprising accuracy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“My mama always said piecing quilts is like making friends.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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