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From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Now, “the arrow of causality has flipped” on the view that “AI is killing the jobs first, and that’s what’s making the economy sick.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Scientists have detected traces of plant-based poison on Stone Age arrowheads from South Africa, marking the oldest confirmed use of arrow poison ever identified.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

I feel a sharp arrow of sadness, followed by an awful hardness at the thought.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish