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The terms of the agreement might seem purposely vague—a case of two hyped-up AI stocks teaming up on a task that no one really understands.

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Supplies are purposely light because Stefansson wants the group to demonstrate how easy it is to live off the land.

A top reporter for the Guardian in London, she’s just back from an assignment during which a female source was purposely drowned.

With her sophomore album, “Solace,” she “purposely made a concerted effort to move away from that,” McLachlan says, “because I wanted to know what I sounded like.”

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The news report brought the hearing to a temporary halt, sparking anger, frustration and accusations that prison officials had purposely released the recording to cause a “spectacle.”

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