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Suggestions included launching long-term public health campaigns to spread awareness among the adult population and integrating information in everyday settings such as apps, public transport, digital billboards and at GP check-ups.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

You can think of this threshold as settings on a control knob.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

That alone was a huge success, he insisted, pointing out that although there had been previous efforts to create tiny earthquakes in lab settings, it was "never at this scale and never this deep".

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

The English have a penchant for cozy stories about animals in rural settings, as well as cozy stories about murder in rural settings.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers