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[hau] / haʊ /


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There should be a master class for Dodgers left-handed hitters to learn how to hit opposing team’s left-handed pitchers when they throw sliders and sweepers!

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Trying to suss out the scope of the statute, Kavanaugh and Barrett both asked how long a video must be for a company to count as a video service provider.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

“Can’t express enough how amazing of a learning experience this is,” Hesam Motlagh, a startup founder and adjunct professor at Stanford University, wrote on LinkedIn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

A new paper looking at the chemical reactions between water and disintegrating plastic offers a potential hypothesis for how microplastics might make us sick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

He doesn’t know how much time passes, but he finally hears a voice.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"We have decided to study in great detail the hows and whys of why premature birth affects the developing brain," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025

Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023

This thoughtfully inclusive guide makes a great starting place, supplying the hows and whys of creating an edible garden to further our personal resilience, strength and healing.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

By answering the who, what, when, where, why and hows, we try to connect the dots and search for the language and syntax to explain the world to ourselves and to others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

I have to hear the hows and whys and what-ifs.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi


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