tool
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CNN is also offering its digital users more advanced voting analysis though a new tool called Sightline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
By creating a miniature universe from just 24,000 atoms, researchers have gained a new experimental tool for investigating a question that has challenged physicists and philosophers for centuries: What makes time flow?
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
At least 26,164 tool thefts were recorded in 2025, based on responses from 30 police forces who shared data.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The new turbocharged sector funds are a more powerful tool for focusing on the biggest winners in an industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Now, we all know what this is. This little tool is magical and can alter the past and erase your mistakes.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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Even advanced artificial intelligence tools, including AlphaFold, have been unable to fully resolve the interaction.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
He adds that “Troy doesn’t have the tools he needs to be effective” in the U.S.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
Intel’s weak forecast reflected how memory-chip prices are hurting demand for laptops, all while information-technology teams have to balance spending on AI tools against hardware purchases.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
A less visible part of home-building is also becoming more costly: the distribution, storage and transportation of materials and tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Though they may have been suspected of fraud, at no time were the two youngest Fox sisters caught outright using chemicals, tools, or collaborators.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
In return, Mexico offered to ship to Austria various objects from Maximilian’s ill-fated reign, including a gilded carriage in which he and his wife, Carlota, tooled around the capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 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
She pressed into my hand a Book of Hours with a tooled leather cover and gilded pages.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Facing uncertain demand, industry has little incentive to invest in plant, tooling, suppliers or workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
But he warns that if training becomes too narrow, apprentices can end up lacking a proper understanding of materials, methods, tooling, quality and process.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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
The glittering gold ground of the Modrone is richly textured with detailed tooling, a resplendent setting for the colorful figures that command our attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It was November 1982, and I was tooling down Virginia State Route 460 in my green 1972 Volkswagen at four A.M.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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