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It is the last missing tomb of known descendants of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, a time when the empire’s imperialist tendencies flourished.

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In our reporting, that feature has been shown to exacerbate the bot’s tendency to “hallucinate,” or invent false information.

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“There is a tendency for us to think of pay as strictly objective because it is numerical,” Harter says.

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What are the pros and cons of the president’s tendency to personalize foreign policy?

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I’m a bit of a neat freak, and now that I live on my own, I can indulge my tendencies.

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