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Senate, and then for the presidency, the country witnessed a profound change.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Musical daydreams, Ms. Margulis writes, are “among the most profound confirmations that radical interconnectedness lies at the heart of human cognition.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
“So all of these things are having really profound ripple effects. This is a situation where you really are seeing crystallized the need for bio preparedness.”
From Salon • May 11, 2026
"Militaries adopt AI to speed up processes such as target identification. But delegating life-and-death decisions to machines poses profound ethical and human rights risks," said Patrick Wilcken of Amnesty International.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
And the most profound problems in physics—the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the big bang—are struggles to defeat zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 1
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
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