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citation

[sahy-tay-shuhn] / saɪˈteɪ ʃən /




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A 31-year-old Honduran man landed on authorities’ radar after he disrupted immigration officers during a February protest in Camarillo, Calif., a misdemeanor citation to which he pleaded guilty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Ten thousand sorties, 23,000 combat flight hours, almost 4,000 combat sorties," he said, later announcing the award of a presidential unit citation to the strike group for "extraordinary heroism against enemy forces."

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Cal/OSHA that year issued a $11,000 citation finding the company had failed to ensure exits were unobstructed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Maybe they can get tenure by embracing and touting these ideas and getting a citation from a Supreme Court justice, maybe even a majority opinion.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026

Indeed, it has been generally overlooked: there is not a single citation of it in Google Scholar, or in Thomson Reuters Web of Science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In 2019, Yang co-authored two research papers with Google Brain founding member Quoc V. Le about machine learning that has over 20,000 citations today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

UnitedHealthcare, the largest Medicare Advantage company, led with the most AI citations, at roughly 15%, followed by Humana at 12%.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Robinson said in a court filing she used Irys, a legal AI company, but failed to check that the citations were correct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

One flagged doubtful citations, the other assesses each flag, and I adjudicated every call against my archived sources, across 566 end notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Soccer team rosters, citations at the end of journals, introductions at faculty meetings—always they seem to her some vestige of the prison lists that never contained her father’s name.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr


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