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It’s “yet another advantage IBM can bring to bear in enabling, scaling, and governing production AI systems that will necessarily need to be scaffolded atop existing IT architectures,” Boolani wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Morally if not legally, they deserve more grief than whatever the Justice Department manages to bring to bear on them, which won’t be much.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

He hopes “to bring to bear at the federal level many of the changes that we’re leading with here in California,” and has said promoting electric cars and solar and wind energy isn’t enough.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

But it said it recognised "the huge wealth of resources, expertise and innovation capability these large firms can bring to bear".

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024

He looks out at us with astonishing directness, as if he were reading us with the same intensity that we bring to bear on his strongly modeled features.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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