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In the coming months, trainees will be able to learn blasting and painting with virtual-reality equipment sent from South Korea—which lowers costs and exposure to hazardous fumes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
But there’s also something revealing about recruiting people to perform a form of labor that society has never been especially consistent about expecting everyone to learn.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
Almost as important as learning his new teammates, Doncic wanted for them to learn about him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Financial advisers learn the intricacies of portfolio design, risk management and tax planning.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Because if you don’t learn how to work with your partner, you fail.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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That’s why quarterbacks throwing to receivers in offseason practices are valuable as each learns about the other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
By revealing the intricate connections, specialized functions, and unusual physical structure of neurons in the locus coeruleus, the research provides a more detailed picture of how the animal brain communicates and learns.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Whenever a teammate needs a pep talk McKennah Iamaleava is quick to give it — a skill one learns growing up in a family full of accomplished athletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Maria soon after learns that her father, from whom she has been estranged for decades, has been murdered in an Alabama beach town, leaving her his house and worldly goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
She learns that I haven’t always been in Maryland, but I move great distances only when the body I’m in moves great distances.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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By the end of Instacart’s fictional boot camp, the male recruits have learned to identify ripe bananas, read expiration dates and make sensible substitutions.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
The scientific mystery dates back to 1934, when Western researchers learned that people in Papua New Guinea sometimes experienced vivid visions of miniature humans after eating wild mushrooms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
American executives quit energy startup Polar LNG, alleging they learned the company was secretly funded by Russian gas giant Novatek.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
After talk of lessons learned and improvements made, reality struck fast for England.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
“I’d be awful at acting. My ma says that I’ve never learned to control my emotions.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
Over 15 days, they learnt to identify stars, planets and constellations, navigate the night sky, operate telescopes and photograph the Milky Way on their phones.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
They learnt four dances, practised hard and rehearsed at home to prepare for the event, Fernhill House Care Home said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
"And I feel like I learnt to do that too," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“What those who wish to think amiss of me,” Jefferson pleaded, “I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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He is reportedly now living in a Florida rehabilitation centre learning to walk again after having a leg amputated in 2025.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The researchers then used machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence that identifies patterns in complex data, to determine whether these antibody signatures could distinguish people who would eventually develop IBD from healthy individuals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Recently my grandchildren looked through an album of photographs I had taken of their mother when she was young; in a way, they were learning about themselves, their origins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Her sister, a high school student, standing nearby, described deteriorating learning conditions, with 40 pupils per class and a lack of facilities such as laboratories, at her school.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, Lorren—who’d never stopped reeling from Rachel’s claim about Traveler’s post—was tired of watching me spin my wheels when it came to learning basic facts about the boy we talked to every day.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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