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All the adult actors are very pretty, including the women, though the calculation—a helpful one—was to cast performers who don’t resemble the younger selves of the present-day characters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
First, grooves that resemble “toothpick” marks don’t necessarily prove tool use.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Ultimately, gleaning what is happening in the brain could change anesthesia, helping it to be redesigned or personalized to more closely resemble natural sleep rather than a coma-like one, Helfrich said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Citi expects a new Siri app to resemble something like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot while also serving as an AI assistant across applications on Apple’s operating systems.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Many Kikongo words resemble English words backward and have antithetical meanings: Syebo is a horrible, destructive rain, that just exactly does not do what it says backward.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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