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Prosecuting, Gordon Menzies said: "It's reasonably practicable for clever people to do a simple thing and design a window that doesn't fall out once every year."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
In simple terms, they are enormous mineral deposits moving through space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
That simple trick puts just a little bit more distance between me and the mindless, click-to-buy mentality that has gotten me in trouble before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
While target-date funds may have some flaws, other financial advisers said they are a good default option for people who may want simple, easy-to-understand investment choices.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Those simple, mostly happy days would never come again.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
For her, it's all about nostalgically "wanting to remember simpler times"; being able to "bury into escapism".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
A simpler and more effective solution would be for state insurance regulators to mandate public disclosure of all ratings of private credit, along with explanations on how they were determined.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
I frequently struggle to find the right words to describe the elements weaving together the concrete and the conceptual, so I find it simpler to sum up all that as magic.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
In simpler terms, Romer said, she believes “in a different structure of economic policy that puts working people first.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Maybe it will help make things a little simpler for you.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Perhaps the simplest way to gain exposure to non-U.S. stocks is by investing in an ETF benchmarked to a non-U.S. stock-market index.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
"The warning lights were flashing brighter and brighter...and you failed to do the simplest things to prevent this."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
One of the simplest ways to address habitat loss for bees is to make room for native species.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The simplest way of formulating that question: Is there any objective sense in which a man can become a woman or vice versa?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The simplest explanation, then, was that genetic information had passed between the two strains in a chemical form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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