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The most basic way to counter AI sycophancy is to ask open-ended questions.
The European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Canada held their policy targets while the Reserve Bank of Australia boosted its key rate a second time to counter inflation.
From Barron's
While he’s there, he grabs a coffee, pays a utility bill at the counter, and prints a document he needs for work.
From Barron's
“She needs to be looked at before we process her,” one of the agents tells the staff members gathered near a counter.
From Los Angeles Times
Upon the plane’s return to the U.S., its “suitcase nuke” triggered the Geiger counters at an airport in Maine, convincing a customs agent that a nuclear bomb was about to strike America.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.