austere
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The term "artificial intelligence" was born in 1956 at an austere summer workshop at Dartmouth College.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
There sits the studio, an austere black cube jutting into the countryside, guarded by a giant sculpture of a gorilla.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The 43-minute work for four couples is set to austere and mechanistic piano pieces, inspiring a succession of solo, duo and grouped choreographic configurations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
The High Hall of the Arryns was long and austere, with a forbidding cold-ness to its walls of blue-veined white marble, but the faces around him had been colder by far.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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