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[bak-graund] / ˈbækˌgraʊnd /


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"At this stage, it is not clear what the background to these cases is or whether there are any links between them", Japan police chief Yoshinobu Kusunoki said on Thursday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Gregor Mendel’s 1866 paper about genetics, Mr. Byrne writes, was overlooked perhaps “because he was outside the main scientific community—someone with a working-class background, and a monk at that.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But Hamilton and her team had planned for such an error by engineering "priority-driven software" to shut down any background tasks and favour the most important - the Moon landing - according to MIT.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

FlyDubai works in the background to offer cheap flights, often to the region’s more dangerous destinations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

And Kappe believed that Haupt's physical strength, his background in boxing, and his American ways would serve the mission well.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

"We can have all the data, all the character backgrounds, context and information that's available," Cave added.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

That said, I think it’s too easy to draw a straight line between your respective backgrounds and your reactions to the $3 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Instead, the ministry says FlyDubai agreed in writing to check its pilots’ backgrounds and nationalities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Constipation is one of the most common digestive problems, affecting people across age groups and backgrounds.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026

The Instagram contained no real pictures, only quotes rendered in typewritery fonts with soft-focused, crumpled-paper backgrounds.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green




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