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He said he didn’t learn about the charges against him until four hours later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
What do you need to learn to pass the Knowledge?
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I was really curious to learn: Why did they kill this guy?”
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
It’s easy to judge, but it’s better to listen and learn from other people’s experiences.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
What if I could just say, “I’m not very good at conversations about feelings,” the same way Celia said, “It takes me a long time to learn a new skill.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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“Sometimes she has a new perspective and sometimes the world has changed. But in every case, she’ll take responsibility when she’s made a mistake and learns from it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Once a person learns the technique, it can potentially become part of ordinary daily movement without requiring continued use of specialized equipment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Fourteen-year-old Genevieve learns she can change her clothes to pass as a much more glamorous 17-year-old, while 11-year-old Fenella prefers covering herself in gray fur so she resembles a cat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Their weights, or the numeral parameters that the model learns throughout the training process, can be downloaded directly and run locally.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s not until the end of the story that Dorothy learns she can wish on the shoes to take her back home to Kansas.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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They had been certified at PSA and were being returned to him in Michigan when he learned about the theft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
I’ve learned which things are worth making myself, which are better left to professionals and how much pleasure a few slightly theatrical details can bring to an otherwise ordinary meal.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
He said there are lessons to be learned and limits to U.S. power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The researchers also highlight an important distinction between what people consciously believe and what they have learned through experience.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Luring visitors inside with refreshment was a little trick Clare had learned from Brickbane, who’d learned it from Po, who’d learned it from Eddifoot, who’d learned it from the Usher before him, and so on.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"I've learnt a lot as a captain, I've learnt a lot as a person," Brook, whose side return to action in a 50-over tri-series on Tuesday, told Press Association.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It was only later that he learnt of Nansi's heroics.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Griffith said she felt "sadness and frustration that women had to go through these experiences" for the review to happen and she wants lessons to be learnt across the industry.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
"I have learnt so much, I have met people all around the world, and it has been delightful," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I suppose it is a bit cruel,” Ruth said, “the way they always work him up like that. But it’s his own fault. If he learnt to keep his cool, they’d leave him alone.”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“It’s about learning what to do with those emotions without making somebody else pay for them.”
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Where possible, the creative team used malleable physical effects to better reflect the consistency of a clay-like substance, something Rhys Harries said was a "steep learning curve".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
“Can’t express enough how amazing of a learning experience this is,” Hesam Motlagh, a startup founder and adjunct professor at Stanford University, wrote on LinkedIn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
A massive data breach of the Instructure Canvas learning system hit UC, CSU and other schools across the nation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
To be learning about these boys rather than just imagining them, to be trying to solve the mystery of the call in an orderly way rather than merely by hopping on trains.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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