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In this context, "organic" simply means carbon-based and does not indicate that the material came from life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
"To put £36 m in context, one man has donated a sum bigger than Labour's entire 2024 election budget, bigger than the Conservatives', and about six times what Reform actually spent," a senior figure told me.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The world-ending A.I. bogeyman becomes even less believable when the warnings are placed in proper context.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
In the American context, after all, Oscar season is just about the last place for broad, sustained attention to challenging studio fare, bold independents, international features and documentaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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“We found some subtle but consistent differences in the pitch and length of meows between those two contexts, suggesting maybe cats have different meows for ‘Where did you go?’ and ‘You’re back!’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Mr. Blaževičius’s considerable achievement here is to have created a film that observes them in dual heightened contexts, of history and heartbreak, without forcing the connections between the two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"States and territories are advised to review" the Trump administration's recommendations on "immunization requirements for contexts such as school enrollment and attendance," the order states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Hannah says she had no emotional connection to her previous surname, and it often confused people when she would use two surnames in different contexts.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Even with the syntax repaired, the sentences are difficult to understand, and the original contexts don’t make them any clearer.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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