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Using images of a male and female with visible differences, we tested five popular AI tools to understand if and how they would interpret the prompt "make this person normal".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The website does not feature digital advertisements, nor does it prompt readers to subscribe, but there is also no disclosure of who is funding it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Surely, though, it must be possible to punish a company for being reckless or negligent in its use of A.I., even if no one gave an agent a prompt like “Do some crimes.”
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026
High fuel prices also could prompt farmers to divert more cropland to producing biofuels instead of food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
He’s typing in a command, pressing his thumb to the screen for print recognition, speaking a string of letters and numbers in response to a prompt.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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Spotify, and its competitors like Apple Music and Amazon Music, are driving the trend in AI-assisted curation, allowing premium subscribers to automatically generate playlists through text prompts to fit a mood, vibe or occasion.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
These are some of the prompts an engineer arrested by federal authorities last week is accused of submitting to an artificial intelligence chatbot to program a recording device hidden in an OpenAI conference room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
"I have heard stories of some writers using AI prompts to do a first draft which I find shocking because I think... What are you paid for otherwise? What are you there to do?"
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Which prompts a question: Are there Canadians who believe they have gained from this whole back and forth?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The app prompts me to upload a photo.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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It produced for one prompter a schematic of a jet engine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those accounts accused Harris of making use of the prompter to answer questions from the audience, asked in English and Spanish, causing Univision producers to set the record straight late Thursday night.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
I'd like to see how she performs more off the cuff and without an ability to read from the prompter.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
Diesel even mocked the script rolling across the prompter that Universal had put together for the actor to read about the movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
"Still it is a wonder to me," said Pan Yan, "that he writes about loyalty to the house of Radzivill, and not to the country, which means more than the Radzivills, and demands prompter rescue."
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country."
From Time Magazine Archive
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They have German magistrates, an interpreter in courts when they act as jurors, German newspapers, &c.; and are the stoutest, if not the promptest, asserters of democracy.
From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Tyrone Power
But the promptest fell to work, took down their tents, and began to make 209 up the packs.
From At Plattsburg by Allen French
What prompted the letter from Furner is that Walmart is expanding its use of electronic shelf labels, little screens that let employees update prices digitally from a central computer instead of replacing stickers by hand.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Google's AI Overview regurgitated the allegation when it was prompted by the disinformation watchdog NewsGuard.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
The findings have even prompted some of the researchers to reconsider ideas they held throughout their careers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
That prompted lenders everywhere to re-evaluate construction risk on their projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
“And that, I suppose, is why she was walking down Cherry-Tree Lane,” Jane prompted gently.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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Journalists "poisoned the well of justice" by prompting complainants to come forward and make criminal allegations against Brand, jurors have heard.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
He blew a kiss to the fans and waved his hand toward them, prompting cheers from the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Data earlier Monday showed manufacturing activity in October contracted at its fastest pace since late 2024, with the downturn in the sector prompting firms to lower their employment for a second consecutive month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Election workers noticed suspicious behavior and reported it, prompting an investigation.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
A growth on her adrenal gland had turned up on a Bellevue CAT scan, prompting a visit to an endocrinologist.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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