basic idea
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Their approaches differ, but the basic idea is the same: The chatbot remembers what you have told it and uses that to shape future responses.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Duncan Smith's basic idea was to make work pay, to incentivise people into a job.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
The basic idea is to pay tax when you’re in a lower tax bracket.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 28, 2025
Remote sensing data collected by orbiting spacecraft like those used for this study provide researchers with a basic idea of the composition of the moon's surface, according to Andrews-Hanna.
From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025
The basic idea was one that Elizebeth and her team had often used before, so they knew it was crucial to harvest as many cribs as they could from the South American messages.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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