tool
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With my permission, Google’s Personal Intelligence tool can access all my activity in almost every Google service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Given our evolutionary relatedness to chimpanzees, we hope accumulative stone throwing can help us understand the emergence of complex communication and stone tool use over the course of human evolution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Interest rate hikes are a tool used by central banks aiming to slow the pace prices are rising in the shops.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
A lot will depend on how you use the tool, what questions you ask and whether you verify the sources used and double-check the findings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
He opens his lightweight jacket to reveal a modified tool belt around his waist.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
"This directly explains the presence of bows, arrows, and maces in the women's tombs; these were not just symbolic gifts but tools they actively used."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
As employees became more productive with AI tools, the thinking went, enterprises would trim their staffs and purchase fewer software subscriptions, also known as “seats.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
In Batroun, a northern coastal city home to the ruins of a small Roman amphitheatre, an archaeologist was surrounded by tools and papers, documenting the latest finds as waves lapped rocks nearby.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Flock CEO Garrett Langley told the Journal that momentum is still with the company and that its audit tools are helping uncover misuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The first thing was to gather some tools together.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
The bank's agriculture relationship managers were being tooled up with advice on how to reduce emissions down on the farm, she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
The saddle was just my size with tigers and dragons tooled in swirls.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Facing uncertain demand, industry has little incentive to invest in plant, tooling, suppliers or workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
"Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical," it said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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
They’d been tooling through Michigan, headed for New York City, got off the turnpike for gas, got lost on their way back to the highway and had headed into the 7-Eleven for directions.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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