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And, as if to underscore that point, Huang told reporters in Scotland he expects the company to sell twice as many chips next year as this year because of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The findings underscore how strongly short-term weather events can influence the condition of Arctic sea ice.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
“These findings underscore the difficulty of making an initial enrollment decision in Medicare,” the study said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
According to analysts, Cairo will use the summit to underscore its strategic autonomy, showing it can leverage its close ties with both Washington and Beijing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
To underscore his point, he sent a gigantic barrel of ice-packed champagne to the press box, complete with a card.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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But experts said ProPublica’s data analysis, along with stories about delays in ectopic care, underscores the need to find out what is driving the deaths.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
The effort underscores the challenge of fully disabling the country’s missile program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"Our study thus underscores the transformative role of breath-based interventions. The interplay between breathing and cardiac dynamics makes the brain more receptive to rewards," explains lead author Wenhao Huang, interpreting the results.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Kalshi episode underscores the growing compliance burden facing prediction markets as they attract more users and move closer to mainstream products.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
In addition to the ready perspective it offers on relative risk, the safety index underscores the obvious fact that every activity carries some risk.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Ahead of the meeting, rhetoric from Washington and Beijing has underscored only deepening acrimony and distrust over their rush to dominate the technological frontier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Rubio also underscored commercial ties, saying Google, Palantir, and SpaceX were "establishing operations and digital infrastructure in Ecuador."
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
ChangXin Memory Technologies’ results, the first since its Shanghai listing last month, underscored the rapid rise of the Hefei-based company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
But the coordinated attacks also underscored the vulnerability of the United States’ water facilities, prompting some obvious questions as to what the federal government has been doing, is presently doing, and perhaps should be doing.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
America's nuclear gambit had kept Stalin in check, but the crisis in Berlin underscored the need to anticipate the USSR's next move.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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The review's authors raised concerns about possible metabolic effects, underscoring that questions about appetite and glucose regulation are distinct from the original claim about DNA damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
But figuring out who gets what has become a complicated legal battle, underscoring a harsh reality: Even when stolen money is found, getting it back can be another ordeal entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Jacobs’ attorneys released a statement underscoring that the NFL is reviewing his case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
The company's data centre division alone generated $89bn last quarter, up 117% from a year ago, underscoring just how much of the industry now depends on Nvidia's hardware.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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