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Pinchpoints tend to be around the arrival for the weekend on Thursday and Friday.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Media folk, perhaps fearful of the impact of artificial intelligence on their livelihoods, tend to cover potential economic disruption from AI as a threat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Much of this volatility is directly attributable to leveraged products that tend to distort and amplify sudden moves in the market.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Congolese mining towns tend to be porous and migrant-heavy, rough, difficult places to live in some of the country’s roughest, most difficult areas, where there is plenty of reason to distrust outsiders.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
Some doctors tend to feel they’re invulnerable, while other people, doctors included, refuse to set their work aside because to do so is inconvenient.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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