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"Some pairings might seem obvious, while others might appear a bit outlandish, but that is precisely the richness of the tool," said Guesnet.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Expectations for higher rates now sit around 85% for December, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
It said the tool was used to produce a tiny amount of code.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
By bringing together detailed galaxy formation, dark matter, gas, and the movement of radiation, Lumina offers researchers a powerful new tool for reconstructing the universe's earliest chapters.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
Dr. Ashworth secures a mouth prop over me, a hard rubber tool that disables me from closing my mouth.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
IFF has developed its own AI tools using decades of internally collected data.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Parliament, without one of their main tools for communicating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, said it was investigating an issue affecting its connections to Microsoft's services, which caused some tools not to work as expected.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
“Longer term, however, it could make some customers more receptive to alternatives” such as Google Workspace and even new productivity tools from Anthropic.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
I sit on the steps a few feet away while he gets a bucket full of gardening tools and starts working.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Even if Congress voted the funds tomorrow for 10,000 new interceptors, the metal and the gas would still have to be found, the workforce trained, and the production lines tooled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
He tooled around cheerfully in a used car given to him by an old friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
Rowe started back up in July 2020 with a four-episode run of “Dirty Jobs: Rowe’d Trip,” in which he tooled around the country in an RV, and the main show returned in January 2022.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
The contents of her tooled leather purse with the rose designs had spilled all around her.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Teng also describes how the hackers used "a self-destruct mechanism that destroyed tooling and traces as they went, making it more difficult for us to trace and investigate".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The biopharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb chose Anthropic’s Claude as its “standard harness” to avoid rebuilding basic infrastructure tooling, according to Greg Meyers, its chief digital and technology officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yet the only reason he’s out here racking up steps by the hundreds on a recent morning is because he was tooling around in his sculpture studio before I arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Beyond the model, Scaled Cognition has also built a platform for enterprise AI deployment that includes agentic tooling, live agent monitoring and simulation and evaluation frameworks, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Sitting down, he lifted the saddle onto his knee and looked close at the silver and the tooling.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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