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And it is much more sensitive to sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
The policy touches on a sensitive area of military life: how a federal institution recognizes and records personal belief systems.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
"You're able to do two things that are normally not compatible with one another: Use entanglement to build an exquisitely sensitive sensor but also have robustness to arbitrarily large amounts of noise," Clerk said.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
Thomas Weir Pauken II, 50, "admitted to being part of a conspiracy to obtain sensitive information from the US government" for China, US Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A Eisenberg said.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
“He had problems, possibly certain childhood traumas that had affected him. He was misunderstood. Underneath I think he was a caring and sensitive person.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 5
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