represent

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There’s no satisfactory answer to that, although it’s fair to say that the papacies of Francis and Leo represent the first serious efforts to reckon with those more recent crimes.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

The Cliffwater fund owns thousands of different investments, and the Ares and Blue Owl stakes represent a tiny percentage of its assets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Although only a small fraction of schizophrenia patients carry mutations in grin2a, the researchers suggest that dysfunction in this circuit may represent a shared mechanism underlying cognitive impairments in some patients.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

They represent pure profit, meaning some clubs choose to sever that connection and cash in.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

The Babylonians had no way to denote which column a written symbol was in; T could represent 1, 60, or 3,600.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife