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“Yes, I am discouraged. … But I am not despairing,” said Bill McKibben, an author and environmental activist who is organizing a worldwide event called Sun Day for next year to promote clean energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Daily Express leads with claims from author Tom Bower that the earl is "undoubtedly" working with his nephew, the Duke of Sussex, to "damage" King Charles.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Formerly the New York Times’s chief classical-music critic and the author of several books on classical music, Mr. Tommasini writes in a nontechnical manner, occasionally sharing information about himself in the process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
This is the first book I’ve ever read that sounds just like a social media feed, with the author recommending product after product, and then stipulating whether or not he is affiliated with them.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Nothing could have been better calculated to activate all of Jefferson’s interior antennae, since his primacy as the author of the Declaration was his major claim to everlasting fame.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Meanwhile, Anthropic agreed last year to pay at least $1.5 billion in a major settlement with authors who alleged the company had pirated their work to train its models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“You can sometimes see authors chasing a trend rather than writing what they would ordinarily write, hoping their book will go viral,” Friedman says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
In one study the authors cite, consumers who say that they regularly avoid sugar still view sweetened cereal as a “permissible indulgence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Many in the second cohort had mortgages with relatively high interest rates and then ended up in foreclosure, said Jeffrey Zabel, one of the authors of the paper.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn’t comply.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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That led to further work on the BBC and Channel 4, a newspaper column, and the publication of more than 20 books about gardening authored by Don.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Susan Spence, chair of the ISM manufacturing business survey, who authored the report, said in an interview that she’s “starting to see warning signs” that customers are not spending money on orders.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
One day before, Meta published a blog post, authored by Mosseri, about rolling out new safety features for teens.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The supervisors who authored the motion, Paloma Aguirre and Terra Lawson-Remer, say that lengthy waits at the border are the responsibility of the federal government.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
By 1959 she had authored one report, coauthored seven more, including one with Max Faget, and, like Mary Jackson, been promoted to engineer.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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For example, last May, Anthropic’s biological safety classifier blocked a request for Claude’s assistance in authoring a grant application for scientific funding.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
His career accomplishments include founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture and authoring numerous books, including one on the NMAAHC's creation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
In addition to authoring cookbooks “Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings” and “Food Gifts: 150+ Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents,” she hosted “The Walk-In” podcast and worked as a food stylist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
The artists credited with creating Franklin and authoring his books did not respond to requests from the BBC for comment.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
To be sure, men and women have long been authoring their own content, beginning with drawings on cave walls up through Gutenberg and the typewriter.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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