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A representative of Warner Bros. did not respond to a request for comment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Thiel didn’t comment on the Guardian’s report, and didn’t respond to a request from The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Australia’s forests contain many forgotten experiments that could transform our understanding of how forests respond to human intervention.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
South Korea's defence minister said on Tuesday the military had "a range of necessary measures at our disposal, and we will implement them in stages" to respond to the DMZ incident, without providing further detail.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Rather than respond, Mother kept shuffling through his papers.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Barabak: Pressed by Bash in a follow-up, Hilton responds, “We’ll have to see”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Unlike Alice, Bryan is the audience stand-in: the average guy who responds to a mind-boggling, impossible situation as clumsily as you or I might.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
This is how the Internal Revenue Service responds to a change in a taxpayer’s filing status: When one spouse dies, the survivor often ends up paying higher taxes on lower income.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Scientists call this variability "climate sensitivity": how much the climate responds to gases like carbon dioxide.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Gracias, gracias,” Naomi responds with tears in her eyes.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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Missing Q2 was disappointing but he responded with a strong recovery on Sunday.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Patients with high vitamin D receptor levels who received paricalcitol responded better to chemotherapy and had the longest overall survival following treatment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Rohingya make up the majority of Myanmar refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia, but Kuala Lumpur has not responded to an AFP query about the number onboard.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Chargers responded by winning four in a row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
“That’s why the cucos were there that day! They’d come to get the food,” Seven responded.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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The startup, in the throes of responding to rogue AI incidents, said three employees violated policies for handling sensitive company data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
There is an objective set of facts, and you and your wife are responding to them differently.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"What makes this finding particularly interesting is that the sharks were responding to sounds beyond the acoustic near field, where the sound behaves differently than it does close to the source," Kajiura said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Meanwhile Labour MP for Sunderland Central, Lewis Atkinson, said on X: "My thoughts are with everyone involved and their families, and with the emergency services responding to the scene."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He took his time responding to each and even sent a text to his father that said that he missed him, too.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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