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[kom-uhn-lee] / ˈkɒm ən li /


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The metric, which tech startups commonly use to signal their growth trajectory, is sometimes criticized as imprecise or even misleading, since it typically extrapolates a single month's sales across a full year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Vitamin D2, also called ergocalciferol, is commonly produced from fungi or yeast exposed to ultraviolet light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Once that happens, people’s behavior often changes, because they feel a “rush of motivation” that commonly follows losing weight, according to Paul.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Model alignment is a term commonly used by researchers to describe AI that acts in ways that match human intentions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

In Darwin’s time, the most commonly accepted mechanism of heredity was a theory advanced by the eighteenth-century French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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