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research

[ri-surch, ree-surch] / rɪˈsɜrtʃ, ˈri sɜrtʃ /




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But she said: "More research is now needed to identify the exact drink temperatures linked to this increased risk."

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Gillian Koh, a senior research fellow at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, said that in percentage terms, the ministers’ raises still lagged those for low- and medium-income Singaporeans since 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

In a statement published alongside his papers, Buckmaster said OpenAI had taken up the problem only after word of his research spread, and pursued the same unusual approach he and Alpoge had spent months developing.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Fitzpatrick said research showed children from working class backgrounds tended to be "educationally further ahead" than their peers from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, and argued the education minister's plans would widen this disparity.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Maybe skunk time would be when everyone in class did research about skunks and wrote reports about skunks and built skunk dioramas.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

M researches a part in a mansion that has been meticulously art-directed to resemble the house of a family who in fact never lived there.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Lucy Qin, a postdoc at Georgetown University who researches privacy, pushed back against this framing: “Shorter-term fixes can band-aid the immediate problem but do not address a long-term pattern,” she said.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

Mia village emerged in 1966 after the first blind fortune-teller settled there, according to the Seongbuk Cultural Centre, which researches the district's history.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Chinese authorities have charged a China-born American seismologist who researches underground nuclear tests with espionage after secretly detaining him in late 2024, according to the Massachusetts man’s supporters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Lancelot re-appeared before they had taken their researches further than the date.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The source music, meticulously researched by Hitchcock’s team, is equally memorable.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The trial was a snapshot of community attitudes in 1943, some of which shocked O’Brien as she researched her book.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

As he researched, Barton said he was shocked to find that the majority of the founders were deeply devout, rather than the religion-shunning men he had learned about.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

"He researched his weather app to predict a day that would have 'high winds, low humidity, sort of high heat,'" the affidavit said.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

It was during her bout with the chicken pox, when she dropped her painstakingly researched art history paper into the milk bath while attempting to proofread it.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

While researching his book he found that Mason owned land between Olive and Grand streets right next to the park, making it an appropriate memorial location.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Having spent the better part of two decades researching the psychology of work, I believe that audience entanglement doesn’t just happen to full-time influencers.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

Caravan is researching how illnesses like cancers and chronic diseases can be better detected - work that will now be done out of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Later, he spends his time reading, researching and talking to sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and AI experts to try to stay ahead of where the technology is going.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

“When you’re in a library, researching a topic, you’re on a scavenger hunt, looking for clues and prizes in books instead of your attic or backyard.”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein




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