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As California governor over the past eight years, he survived a recall election, launched a podcast called "This is Gavin Newsom," and oversaw emergency responses to natural disasters including wildfires and the Covid-19 pandemic.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The research, published in the journal, Ecology, external, adds weight to calls to create strips of natural land outside protected areas that connect separate wildlife areas broken apart by roads, towns, or farms.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
That could mean controlling political power, military power, natural resources or social media to influence populations—to name a few applications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
They would also have required future natural gas plants to meet strict emissions standards, which they could achieve by converting to cleaner-burning fuels like hydrogen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Just outside of Chiba, at a refinery owned by Cosmo Oil, a huge storage tank had been filled with water—instead of the lighter natural gas it was meant to hold—for inspection.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
He said people in the UK could mitigate the negative effects of this seasonal breakdown by rethinking "how we manage our naturals areas", including planting new species that are better accustomed to these extreme swings.
From BBC ● May 1, 2025
Film composers are naturals for writing opera, Abels believes, because they’re “always collaborating and seeking to make a larger thing, to have the music serve the purposes of a larger artistic project.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Charli, with her dancing, and Dixie, who studied violin and piano, were naturals at these casual pastiches.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
With great bodies for showing clothes—a typically lanky pro is built like a scaled-up catalogue model—they are naturals as party-photo clothes hangers.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2019
In other words, all chords that have only D naturals, F sharps, and A naturals, are considered D major chords.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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