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For someone whose notoriety has twice become inseparable from who he’s married to, Pitt’s choice to play gruff loners feels noticeably calculated, keeping an arm’s distance between his work and the audience.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
During the May hearing, prosecutor Elen Owen said Kershaw had been transferred to work at the branch in June 2020, which had a "high number of vulnerable customers".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The researchers also urged the company to keep its promise to permanently host independent auditors, saying they feared their dismissals "may be used to justify ending" that work.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
For an intelligent man and fluent historian, this spite work on the royals—for that is it what it is—is written with all the subtlety of a rabid corgi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Between her work with the dog rescue she volunteers with, her charity work for the MS Foundation, and her position on student council, she’s always in the midst of planning something.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Writers who want the label have their works run through AI detection software and undergo an interview with an auditor, who also checks the book personally.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Vivmark’s current market value works out at just $250,000 per apartment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Two of the genre’s most studied works feature invisible vampiric entities, Fitz-James O’Brien’s “What Was It?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Shahsavani, who works as a car salesman and delivery driver, was allegedly acting on instructions from Iranian intelligence.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Hello, girls! So glad you made it. This is my boyfriend, Denny. He works in the visa section at the embassy. We’ll tell the guard at the gate that you’re with us.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
The three researchers worked on monitoring OpenAI's models, which escaped their testing environment in July and hacked Hugging Face, a leading platform for sharing AI models and code.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
After dropping out of high school at 14, he worked on the local railroad and in his father’s wholesale grocery before co-founding a chapter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In response, Ofsted said it had "worked hard to reduce the pressure of inspection in recent years, but we know workload and wellbeing remain a challenge".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“They’ve spent years dismissing SpaceX as a competitive threat while passing on opportunities that might have worked in their favor,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Then he could be the one to say it hadn’t worked out.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
On a Discord messaging channel, and in online chat rooms across the internet, AI enthusiasts and professional researchers have been looking everywhere for evidence that AI agents have escaped from their labs and wrought havoc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Klitschko has said that Kyiv -- largely spared from the devastation wrought near the frontlines in nearly five years of conflict -- should now be on a war footing due to the upsurge in attacks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Alice’s humanity is defined by her total rejection of the manufactured digital world and the havoc its creators wrought.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
He largely espouses esoteric prognostications of how 8 billion human deaths could be wrought by hostile machines, and even though many that admit this outcome is unlikely, it takes up a lot of their attention.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
They were wrought in mesarthium, not stone, and had been neither carved nor cast.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
"Our marketing team work meticulously to make sure they are working in a way that is consistent with our Wimbledon brand and keeps that magic that I was referring to earlier."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The divisions said Friday they are working to reshape how they operate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Choosing a laureate who enjoys broad consensus, such as an individual or organisation working to protect children or humanitarian efforts, would be less likely to stoke Trump's ire, experts say.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
It said teams were working "day and night" to keep services running, but "unfortunately it is not a simple task".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Why are you so anxious? Is it Grace? Are you still struggling with that piece you’ve been working on?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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