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Yet there have also been queries about Newcastle's direction of travel from external quarters as the wait for updates concerning the future of St James' Park and a new state-of-the-art training ground goes on.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Instead of relying on a bulk gas, this approach focuses on how atoms in a chain respond collectively to an external field.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

“Any entity capable of causing the universe,” says narrator Stephen Meyer, a philosopher of science, “must be external to, or separate from, the universe itself. It must . . . transcend time and space.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

It was just a couple of years ago that major corporations were looking to virtual reality as the future of business, whether for internal meetings or external customer experiences.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026

He came out of his struggle integrated only slightly in the external society, but powerfully integrated within.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry