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Ameir was an agricultural academic who largely kept a low public profile.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
If it seems real, she checks the recruiter’s profile for glaringly long times at one job and their posting activity.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
“My thought was, there must be a proper rate for all these exposures — why not all in one company?” he explained to The Times in a 2006 profile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Chelsea appointed Xabi Alonso as manager, believing he had the profile and authority to command the dressing room.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
I woke one night to find him staring at the ceiling, his profile lit by the glow of streetlights outside.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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In the past, scammers would have manually combed through social-media profiles and other online data to piece together details about potential targets and obtain contact information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Nora explains to the counselor running a workplace mental health seminar that the Greeks viewed anger as a kind of insanity, but with different diagnostic profiles.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Take Two is asking for identifying information associated with the online profiles and activity tied to the leaks, which have generated considerable buzz in the gaming world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Pollen has been very useful in identifying different coatings where the molecular profiles were identical."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Most human groups are a scattershot mix of HLA profiles, which means that almost always some people in the group will not get sick when exposed to a particular pathogen.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Earlier this month, the New York Times profiled the Modern Silent Shorts festival, which has annually showcased short films it commissions from select filmmakers since 2024.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
A 2025 Wired article entitled “Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit” profiled a Texas company seeking to create gene-edited pets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Food trends columnist Adam Chandler profiled Lev Sercarz about cooking in this new era of American eating, and received suggestions for the best seasonings—from sumac to smoked salt—for spicing up even the simplest meals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Charniak, 85, is one of several families profiled in the new book “Grandfamilies: Stories of Children and the Loving Relatives Who Raise Them.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
He profiled directly in front of the bull, drew the sword out of the folds of the muleta and sighted along the blade.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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But activists say hundreds have been pushed across the border from Assam in recent months without due legal process, often based on ethnic profiling.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
“Hatred has no place here, and I will continue to fight against all forms of discrimination, including the racial profiling and scapegoating of Chinese Americans,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
The paper, titled "Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility profiling identifies cell types and functional variants contributing to major depression" by Anjali Chawla and Gustavo Turecki et al., was published in Nature Genetics.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
He tracked changes in the microbial populations using advanced DNA analysis and metabolite profiling to better understand how fermentation unfolds.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
He thought my idea of profiling a new recruit, following him all the way through, was a good one.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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