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The model sought access to a health statistics portal in June, sidestepping restrictions to breach a section hosting private files.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
They are also relatively light, and there’s no assembly required: You simply pull each section out of its box and let it expand.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Nevertheless, the robot successfully assembled an initial section, providing evidence that this construction method can work in orbit.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Campion told jurors he spoke to Williams in the catering section of the train.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
A human being is covered with sweat glands: a square-inch section of the human hand contains thousands of them.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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But referee Howard Foster's decision to stop the contest in the ninth round sparked outrage, with sections of the crowd booing and Groves insisting he had been robbed of victory.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Researchers observed a process called nanoscale 'twinning', in which tiny sections of the metal's crystal structure rearrange into mirror-image patterns.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
And so, entering FIT’s Special Exhibitions gallery, we begin with “Modes in Miniature,” the first of six sections further divided into subsections, all of them bouncing between lifesize and Lilliputian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Hippos swim in giant glass-fronted tanks, while other vast sections house reptiles and birds -- including penguins.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Then you broke the crab in half, like a turnover, and picked out the meat from between sections of cartilage.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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She is currently working full-time as an assistant psychologist for the NHS, and hasn't had a manic episode since she was sectioned four years ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Calocane was in hospital when he was due to appear in court after being sectioned on another occasion.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The house was purchased for $1 from the developer, sectioned and transported on flatbed trucks to Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
If you want frozen garlic — already sectioned and ready-to-use — Trader Joe’s carries the Dorot brand of frozen crushed garlic cubes.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Floor lights and other pieces of equipment were scattered around sets that were sectioned off into cubbyholes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The speech is expected to include a draft law which will reportedly aim to improve care for people with learning difficulties, and change rules on sectioning people.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
Researchers have incorporated a swept illumination source into an open-top light-sheet microscope to enable improved optical sectioning over a larger area of view.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
“It is also equipped with manipulating arms which could be used to extricate the sub, such as by sectioning cables or things that would be blocking it at the bottom.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Johnson began by teaching the kids some basic techniques, like parting and sectioning hair, and by introducing them to the tools of the trade.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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