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The next great geopolitical shock may begin somewhere you can’t even point to on a map.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Spreading your money across the map is not the same as spreading your risk.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Some residents and city officials in Tuskegee fear that if Figures loses under a new map, then they will lose out too.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
An influential UC admissions committee abruptly pulls back its road map for studying whether the university should reinstate SAT tests in admissions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Regan raced back to the desk to grab the map she’d left behind and then ran to the office window.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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The resulting maps traced gas motion deep within the black hole's sphere of influence.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
It maps on pretty cleanly because a lot of the cases that people really like involve the court enforcing federal legislation.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Original Ordnance Survey maps were tracked down at the British Library because the streets around East Finchley had changed.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Nor does Michael Ian Black, who turns up as a guy selling star maps to tourists, succeed in creating something with his opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Saturday afternoon, Inkling is at the library looking at maps of upstate New York so he can find Land o’ Pumpkins.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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For more than a century, neuroscientists have studied the human brain much as early cartographers mapped unknown lands: piecing together a vast landscape from scattered observations.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Oceanographers often point out that scientists have mapped the surfaces of the Moon and Mars in greater detail than much of Earth's deep ocean.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
But revisiting the lyrics of “Just a Girl,” she realized it mapped neatly onto Elle’s arc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Before arriving, all holidaymakers must prove their tourist credentials and their itinerary is strictly mapped out.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The backs of her legs were mapped with dark blue veins, and her upper arms sagged like the flesh of a roasted eggplant.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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But we sit around and talk and make notes, and Jamie goes off and does the nitty gritty of mapping it out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Built from high-resolution images of thin slices of post-mortem brain tissue, the approach makes detailed, cell-level mapping affordable.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Some consultants bill themselves as senior downsizing experts and can provide guidance in mapping out a move.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Wayve’s approach doesn’t require elaborate mapping of streets before it can drive around them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
It is still almost untouched—archaelogists have not finished mapping the earthworks and canals.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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