august

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Newspaper editorials, of course, rarely have much impact, especially these days, when no newspaper, not even the Times, struts the stage of mass media with the august authority it once held.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

Sanger’s renewed criticism helped push Wikipedia back into the spotlight this past week at a time when the nation’s most august institutions are under pressure for the messages they put into the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

The prolific author also serves as a kind of cultural commissar, heading the government’s publishing house, El Fondo de Cultura Económica, which has published 10,000-plus titles across genres in its august, 90-year history.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025

On 5 August, Peters took to X to announce the news: "I don't know how it gets better than this. See u at the eras tour on august 19th."

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2024

Watson and Crick feared that they would wake up one morning, open the pages of an august scientific journal, and find the solved structure of DNA staring back at them.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee