authentic
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This trend chimes with the Gen Z and millennial mantra to bring your “whole, authentic self” to work, said Rebecca Thornton, a partner at talent advisory firm Spencer Stuart in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The human interaction, back-and-forth questions and follow-ups are essential to keep their stories authentic and anti-AI — a system that is proving to be detrimental to teaching writing skills.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Those are the sort of authentic third-party endorsements politicians crave.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The result was something distinctly authentic with an underground quality that would have been hard to replicate at a sprawling, weeks-long festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Your police department—others as well—may have retired, very probably have retired, authentic humans with underdeveloped empathic ability, such as my innocent niece here. Your position, Mr. Deckard, is extremely bad morally. Ours isn’t.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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