outline
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Ph.D., outline how doctors and researchers should weigh the potential benefits of genomic therapies against their risks.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
The consumer-goods group behind Dove soap and Vaseline will outline plans at an investor event Wednesday to save 1 billion euros by the end of 2029 by recuperating some costs and overhauling operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Your adviser should be clear about their motivations, and be able to outline them on paper.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
A separate law lets tribes comment on general plans that outline where developers can propose housing, and commercial and industrial facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
She traces the outline of the “stuck that” sticker with one fingertip.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Friedman & Ranzenhofer, a New York-based law firm, outlines the various steps to challenging a will.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
A line of graphics along one wall outlines the details of each shuttle mission — 135 in all — as vertical stripes of information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
It outlines some recommendations, including criminalising website operators, improving cross-border operational cooperation with the Republic of Ireland and targeted interventions for men.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Astronomers have long depicted distant exoplanets with smooth, circular outlines.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
She stood at attention, like a frail drill sergeant, but her outlines seemed curiously smudged.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Chris Thomas outlined plans to strengthen food security and connectivity, but said emergency preparedness was not among his top five priorities.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
And party leaders in Washington were nodding to 2028 as they outlined broad plans for their House and Senate majorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has outlined plans to triple Turkey's installed solar and wind capacity from around 40 gigawatts to 120 gigawatts by 2035.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
Within days of its late September investor day, when it outlined how much that would cost, its stock hit its lowest forward earnings multiple in more than a decade, aside from 2020’s Covid-19 panic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
I’d never noticed it before, but the silhouette of a woman was outlined in the brightness of that moon.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Diplomatically, you didn’t really score any points by outlining all the ways you would like to spend his inheritance.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Oracle said it would raise the full amount it earmarked for additional financing through fiscal 2030, just days after outlining those plans.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Donald Kohn, a former Fed vice chairman, said he has little patience for one extreme, where officials become overly precise in outlining at which meetings they expect to change rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Much work remains to be done to finesse the conclusions, and a paper outlining the results is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Buford listened for the scattered fire of patrols coming in, moving along his flanks, outlining him, but there was nothing.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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