a portion
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Next, we monitored the activity of a particular collection of cells in a portion of the brain known as the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, or BNST.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
If the government fails to cover the cost of security in those areas, the city would seek all or a portion of LA28’s contingency funds to make up difference, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
That would likely keep the obligations off Nvidia’s books initially but put the chip maker on the hook for a portion of the project if an end user of its chips defaults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
And it’s also true that a higher correlation does reduce the diversification benefits of allocating a portion of an erstwhile all-stock portfolio to bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
One can imagine a race of advanced space aliens who could compress a portion of this network into a zipped file of bits and hum it to each other like two dial-up modems.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
