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Unlike the rest of us, Tsimerman also consults AI while writing math papers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The fire started on the afternoon of March 8 while Galicia was at Ministerio Esperanza Church in South L.A., where he serves as pastor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Prof Maggs bought a wine fridge in anticipation, the perfect dark, cool environment to store it while tests were carried out to prove it was, indeed, a new species.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Many of the basket’s long positions came under pressure, while its short holdings — including a number of hard-hit software stocks — rallied.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Clouds float while sunlight as wide as God’s smile shines.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It was a fully functioning ecosystem where contestants slept, ate, played, read and whiled away the hours, built in a stretch of empty field off a Greenville highway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
Taking a Greyhound bus back to Palo Alto, Lesh whiled away a few years rooming with Constanten and working at the post office as he composed classical music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
The family said their "quiet and uncomplaining" mother, severely disabled by her stroke, had whiled away her days in a general care unit, and the specialist support she needed had barely begun.
From BBC ● May 29, 2024
Many have been in the tech sector, which hired heavily during the pandemic, when people whiled away time stuck at home playing games online.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
I thought of the hours I had whiled away staring at its beauty and how hard it had been finding the right name for it.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Since their arrival in Kinshasa, a megacity of more than 17 million people, the 15 South American migrants have been whiling away their time in a complex near the airport.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
There seemed to be something basic or banal about whiling away hours in the gym.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2025
“Grapefruit—Juicy Fruit” isn’t precisely a song about whiling away the hours on a beach but the mellow groove certainly feels like it was designed to soundtrack a peaceful afternoon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2023
Another photo is of me and my brother as kids, playing cards aboard a moving train, whiling away the time as we whiled away thousands of hours: together.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
Suddenly I realized that this unprofitable task of his was probably nothing more than a method of whiling away the early morning hours, much as other insomniacs do crossword puzzles.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
