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Their findings point to a common brain mechanism that may help explain several distinct symptoms of schizophrenia.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
“If I’m seeing a completely different reality than you, whether it’s through influencers, AI or social media microtargeting, then it’s impossible to have a common basis for making decisions or choices,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“The more this type of cooperation can be done, the better for the stockpiles of these common munitions,” said Jeffrey Hornung, a senior political scientist at the Rand think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Trian owns around 16.3% of Wendy’s common stock.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
He thought that Handsome and Major Puff shared common qualities and might become good friends under the right circumstances.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
The fugitive Aegon experienced what it was like to be a boot-licking commoner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
For all his introspection, Dunk wrongfully justifies his own survival as a transaction — a king-to-be traded for a commoner.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
LONDON—It was supposed to be the moment a shamed prince was reduced to humble commoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The only feature of the New World named after a commoner before 1507 seems to have been the Rio de Fonsoa, named after a sponsor of the 1499 expedition.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
And it is the third commonest type of cancer in the UK - leading to about 35,000 deaths each year.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
So-called hyperemesis gravidarum is the commonest cause of admission to hospital of women in the first three months of pregnancy.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee noted, "has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations."
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2022
Rather, Button selected their products for BuyMeOnce because of the inventive ways Davek responds to the commonest problem: losing that umbrella.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018
‘Those is commonest of all,’ the BFG said.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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