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"I don't think she necessarily has to get rid of him," said Marta Lorimer, lecturer in politics at Cardiff University.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
"It's really warmed my heart actually. I didn't necessarily want to be on the news or anything like that but this is a new world to me," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“Even if something might be natural, if you aerosolize it and spread it across buildings, it’s not necessarily great,” UCLA’s Spokoyny said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
AI slop has begun appearing on restaurant menus, signs and advertisements, offering food imagery that looks optimized for appetite without necessarily resembling anything a person could cook.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
There was no sign outside the home advertising it as a church, but Ob said, getting out of the car, that it wasn’t the kind of religion people necessarily advertised.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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