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Vincent based the challenge on research showing the lowest income families are feeding themselves on £25 a week per person, which works out at about £3 a day.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Morgan’s Japan Markets Research say in a recent research report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
A growing body of global research suggests dogs can be trained to detect cancer and other human illnesses, from Parkinson's to Covid-19.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The results of a year-long research project are expected to reveal more about Guernsey's wild ferret population than ever, project leaders have said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
After my six-month probation, I got a promotion, a raise, and an offer to permanently join the Flight Research Division’s Maneuver Loads Branch, whose research included keeping aircraft safe when they were in flight.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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The heavy attention was unusual, said Jenny Chan, who researches the Chinese labor market at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
M researches a part in a mansion that has been meticulously art-directed to resemble the house of a family who in fact never lived there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Lucy Qin, a postdoc at Georgetown University who researches privacy, pushed back against this framing: “Shorter-term fixes can band-aid the immediate problem but do not address a long-term pattern,” she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Mia village emerged in 1966 after the first blind fortune-teller settled there, according to the Seongbuk Cultural Centre, which researches the district's history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I knew Mrs. Joe’s housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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That’s how Wagner found Daniel Paul, an architectural historian who researched and documented the 38-foot-tall cupola-style structure built in 1960 by Van Tassel, who ascribed it miraculous powers including antigravity, rejuvenation and time travel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
As he researched, Barton said he was shocked to find that the majority of the founders were deeply devout, rather than the religion-shunning men he had learned about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Pal researched multi-GPU parallelization, or ways of stitching many chips together, at Nvidia, and later co-founded Auradine, a bitcoin miner, where he designed what he describes as the lowest-voltage chip ever shipped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
He researched online and emailed the company posing as an investor to learn more about the event, Mangione told the court.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
That night, while everyone else was sleeping, Roz stayed up with her computer and researched sneaky subjects.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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While researching his book he found that Mason owned land between Olive and Grand streets right next to the park, making it an appropriate memorial location.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Cotlar compared her rhetoric to a conservative anti-communist newspaper publisher he’s been researching: Walter Huss.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Louise, from Westbury-on-Trym in Bristol, said she had begun researching the issue about a year before her daughter Elise was due to start school.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Harvey’s platform creates an infrastructure for law firms and legal departments and professional services, applying AI to core functions such as researching and drafting documents, due diligence, contract analysis and review, and preparation for litigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“It’s an alphabet from the Dark Ages called Ogham. I found it when I was researching ciphers online. Look, I printed out a copy.”
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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