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Around that time, an office prankster briefly erected a life-size cardboard cutout of imprisoned crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried—a joke partly about how similar Coplan, a fellow crypto billionaire, is in appearance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
How frequently those bonds form depends partly on temperature.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Washington had resisted, partly because it supplies F-35s to its ally Israel, which is guaranteed under US law to receive top-of-the-range American weapons compared with those its regional neighbours can access.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The yen’s depreciation has been in contrast with its gains early this month, which had been partly driven by aggressive pricing for BOJ rate increases to curb inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Perhaps, he said, if, as Galileo claimed, there were mountains on the moon, Bruno had been partly right—maybe the moon was inhabited, and life was not confined to the Earth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
