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And, for others, there is a certain hubris seen in tech leaders chasing a technology that on one hand promises to make them incredibly wealthy while also suggesting it is only safe within their control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
This technology allows researchers to study gene activity while preserving information about where individual cells are located within a tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
As a result, he has paused recruitment for new jobs while investing in more robotic assembly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
But investors will remain nervous about the large and growing U.S. debt burden, while the AI infrastructure build-out could lift growth expectations and demand for capital, Tannenbaum said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Knight and squire rode peacefully for a while, until they saw a gang of twelve chained men coming in their direction, with two guards in front and two in back.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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
Once that set ended, Zverev left the court for a medical timeout, and Alcaraz whiled away the time by twirling his racket as if it were a baton.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
Bono is not present on the voyage, which is a gratifying circumstance; I have whiled the time in speaking to Pomp and Slant.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
Moose blew the exam by whiling away his time instead of studying.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
