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Turkey hasn’t backed Western sanctions on Moscow, meaning purchases of Russian energy don’t violate Turkish law.
Growing up, my house backed up to a park with a teeter-totter, the kind that was little more than a steel pipe with two wooden boards as seats.
From Los Angeles Times
When backed by cost-effective storage batteries, those alternative energies now provide the quickest, most affordable means to expand electrical infrastructure in developed and developing nations.
From Salon
In recent weeks, separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates and seeking to revive the formerly independent state of South Yemen have made territorial gains.
From Barron's
Researchers are testing AI’s hacking capabilities in laboratory settings, and a team at Carnegie Mellon, backed by Anthropic, earlier this year replicated the infamous Equifax data breach using AI.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.