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There’s a strange religious tone to all of this, as pointed out by AI researcher Timnit Gebru in a Wired interview last week.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Neagley hadn’t been in contact with him for years, feels guilty, and wants to solve the mystery surrounding Tommy’s strange death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
They also get into Black’s tragic origin story, messy personal scandals, and strange friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2026
There’s a strange irony to this age of relentless self-filming: It’s birthed a devaluing of openness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He longed for the strange sureness that sometimes came to. him and told him what to do.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Of course, knowing what you're supposed to do is one thing but actually walking up to a stranger and starting a conversation, or even messaging someone out of the blue online, is another.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
She is no stranger to public romance, having previously dated Olympic table-tennis champion Zhang Jike, a national icon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
But one of the stranger ones is that, somewhere along the way, Taco Bell became a model of competent public-health communication.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
When considered in full, it seems almost stranger to not recognize them, as El-Sayed did in his tweet five years ago.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
But as the rest of the world grew stranger, one thing became increasingly clear.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Some reports focused on the strangest claims by Arday of his personal achievements, including that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, some partly with a fracture in his leg.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Astronomers may have found some of the strongest evidence yet for one of quantum mechanics' strangest predictions: even apparently empty space can influence the way light travels.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Rhiannon Quinche, from Tunbridge Wells, said it was "amazing" and the "strangest thing ever".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
But the strangest thing about the disastrous trade that nobody saw coming is that it might not be through torturing the Celtics just yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
As they looked into the rest of the rooms, Akira got the strangest feeling that she had been here before.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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