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develop

[dih-vel-uhp] / dɪˈvɛl əp /






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Big Pharma companies are constantly searching for the next hot new drugs—and it’s often a lot easier to buy them than develop them.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

Companies have been trying to identify and develop new chemical weedkillers after leaning for decades on established chemicals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

“You have to develop a great reputation and put in the 10,000 hours before you actually get good at this.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

In the general population, about 1 percent of people develop the condition.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Since then, the claims of the postmodernists notwithstanding, we have learnt to develop reliable knowledge, even though we as human beings have continued to be as fallible as ever.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton