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[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /


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to write computer programs
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She adds, “As the author, getting the story right meant getting the characters right. And on that front, Olivia nailed it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

To make sense of this, I turned to Minxin Pei, editor of the China Leadership Monitor quarterly and the author of “The Broken China Dream.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Matt Schulz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree and author of “Ask Questions, Save Money, Make More: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life,” recently went through this process with his son, too.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Co-first author Associate Professor Joshua Zadro from the University's Institute for Musculoskeletal Health and School of Health Sciences said the findings have broad implications.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

Yet as Donald Braman, author of Doing Time on the Outside, states, “One can only assume that most participants in these discussions have had little direct contact with the families and communities they are discussing.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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