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communicate

[kuh-myoo-ni-kayt] / kəˈmju nɪˌkeɪt /




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These findings suggest that spending hours consuming content may be associated with different mental outcomes than using a phone primarily to communicate with others.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

To understand why this would be, consider how people communicate in everyday conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

For years, people with the condition were assumed to have profound learning disabilities but Romi, who uses special eye-gaze technology to communicate, is hoping to challenge that belief.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

“All detainees are provided with proper meals, water, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

In fact, given how young it was, the fact that they could communicate at all was pretty amazing.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

The latest model fell short in terms of "staying within scope and authorisation, and how it communicates back to the user about the type of work it's done," Jain said.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

But one day, a person he calls “the brigadier,” who communicates through a device implanted in Cramer’s brain, reached out to tell him that the space Marines would support him going public.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

In a 2024 Cell Metabolism study, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine identified a different group of hypothalamic neurons that communicates with fat tissue.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

It is debating whether interest rates are too low with inflation above target, and Warsh is remaking how it communicates with markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

They can specify how a nerve cell communicates with another nerve cell and thus become the arbiters of normal cognition and neural development.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

They scheduled and attended appointments, helped coordinate transportation and childcare, communicated with doctors and nurses, and helped patients make sense of complicated medical information.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

We also shaped the other side of that relationship, selecting dogs that communicated in ways humans could readily understand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Investigators say the victims were targeted by a group of men from Germany, New Zealand and the United States who communicated on the popular messaging platform Discord.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The BBC has also been told it was a military rather than a political decision - taken at an operational level - and communicated from the US military to its British counterparts.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

During the launch phase of the mission, a computer in the Atlas rocket, programmed with the launch coordinates, communicated with Mission Control.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

These individuals spent four to five hours or more on their phones each day, largely consuming online content rather than communicating directly with other people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Qualifications Scotland suggested Romi sit the exam all in one go, but her mum said that would be impossible because communicating using her eyes is so exhausting.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

"I think you’ll see it used when it has to be used, i.e. when you’re communicating with the administration," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“It doesn’t need to be the New York Philharmonic in the operating room, but as a system for communicating information effectively, music has a lot to teach us,” says Schutz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Both movies were rather plotless and I had a hard time communicating the gist of them.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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