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He most often cites Serbia's infrastructure and improved living standards as proof of his success, once pledging to make the country a "land of cranes".
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Marset was imprisoned from 2013 to 2018 in Uruguay, but maintains there was never any hard proof of his involvement in the drug trade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Those possibilities remain part of the proposed application rather than proof that the approach has already replaced existing treatment methods.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
“We cannot ever be complacent,” Ms. Berg says, as she navigates the barriers outside her buildings, each bollard proof of how hard it is for a German Jew to live in peace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The proof was in Maya-Jade standing in front of him with her clipboard.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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"To be clear, we did not use their prompts or proofs to prompt our models or direct our agents," Bubeck said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
This suggests AI may prove to be just as valuable for discovering unexpected mathematical objects as it is for constructing proofs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
While looking over the proofs for her latest cookbook, she picked up a marker and drew a mermaid.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Her goal is to build an “AI mathematician,” capable of reasoning through known problems, finding new ones and validating its work through formal proofs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Lill was born the next day, in Dad’s and Mother’s room, where pencils and notebooks and proofs were within easy reach of Mother’s bed.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Campbell ran Ben’s Bread solo for six of the last eight years, sometimes speeding between multiple kitchens across the city to get everything proofed, baked and packaged.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
"Rural communities are losing out because the policy hasn't been rural proofed", said Rachel Evans; the organisation's director for Wales.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2022
Rye- and wheat-based sourdoughs often require a pre-shaping step before being placed in tins or bannetons, but gluten-free breads are primarily shaped by the container in which they're proofed.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2022
Apparently, the host explained that she had "stupid proofed" the room – not just by using the notes but also making hardware adjustments.
From Fox News ● Dec. 21, 2021
There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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I can imagine Swifties swapping starters instead of friendship bracelets, posting Instagram threads of rainbow-hued loaves with song lyrics as labels, hosting listening-party bake nights and turning proofing schedules into a kind of communal obsession.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
Maintenance worker Darren Pardoe had been bird proofing houses in Porthleven when he stopped at a pub for a coffee on 3 June.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
The Barrett campaign described this as a simple proofing screw-up and said that the team had been working off of a template used ahead of the state’s Aug. 6 primary.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
The monument park is a “dream project” that Halsey has been “visioning, proofing and prototyping” ever since she studied architecture at El Camino community college in Torrance, Halsey said in the announcement Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
The only similarity between the rest of the town and the church is the small windows covered with iron bars, but the shambler proofing is barely noticeable on such an impressive building.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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