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In an analysis of the incident, computer scientist Cal Newport likened OpenAI’s training approach to strapping a Weedwacker to your dog to do yard work.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
“Side by side, commercial yard and naval yard,” Wong said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
We host Thanksgiving every year, 14 people if everyone shows up, and the grandkids spend half of it out in the yard.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
He’d sit in his front yard and take in the mountains as the sun rose and the birds greeted the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
He glanced across the yard at poor Biddy pecking on something, at Muc trying to find a blade of grass to ease her hunger.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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They stifled Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, restricting Walker to 36 yards from 14 carries as KC tied for their fewest points in a game with Mahomes as their starting quarterback.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
But the Bengals stormed back to win 35-13, with Joe Burrow throwing for four touchdowns and 292 yards as the Ravens suffered a second straight loss.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Nix finished with 222 passing yards and a touchdown pass as the Broncos won 30-16 to go 5-2 in the AFC West behind Kansas City, who they host next week.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
A meager 84 yards through the air and a modest 14-7 halftime lead?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
He walked forward a hundred yards and found another section of collapsed road.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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Often on horseback, he yarded and penned cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When Atik returned, Miyax told him he did not need to go to the mountains—that a large herd was yarded not far up the river.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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I, too, had rest; but it was only the ignominious idleness of a young boat with a broken propeller yarded among honourably worn-out craft to await a foundering.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin
Sheep, therefore, contract the disease from being driven over the pastures, yarded on the straw, etc., where diseased sheep have been, perhaps even days, before.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
“You’ve done as I told you, and only yarded at the ends of the twitch-roads, and haven’t hauled to landings?” he inquired.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
The sharp fuss of grown-ups, issued from porches at the rowdy barefoot yarding of neighborhood kids, rises over the chatter of rocking chairs, to contend with manic squeals and out-of-breath laughter.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
Farther south, yarding may occur only during years when the weather is more severe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For example, in northern Wisconsin, researchers have shown that individual does may remain on summer range during mild winters but will move to yarding areas when heavy snows and cold temperatures develop.
From Time Magazine Archive
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What triggers whitetails to move to winter yarding areas?
From Time Magazine Archive
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The use of the gin pole and crotch line operated by the straw drum of the yarding donkey ties up the yarding until the truck is loaded.
From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp
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