design
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When a mass grave was unearthed in northern Sri Lanka last February, it was not by design.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
I vividly remember going to his design studio to review the prototypes of three dolls with him, take notes and make necessary adjustments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Researchers plan to use advanced computational modeling and artificial intelligence to design specialized biomolecules and predict how they will interact with silicon-rich waste.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The head, by design, is part of the game on all plays and for all players and can’t be removed from risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Not only do they drop the egg from three stories up, but they also have a point system for things like bounce factor and aerodynamic design.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
The resulting nanoparticles produce a much stronger signal than earlier designs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The men argued that they purchased the candy specifically for the decorative designs and paid a premium for products they would not otherwise have bought.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Pattison is now head of operations for Tierco Healthcare, a company that designs specialists seats for hospitals and care facilities.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
One of its proposals is to review and standardize the designs of ballot envelopes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The dining room is nice and bright and has wallpaper with fruit designs.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Willy Bermello, 75, the architect who designed the proposed Trump library in Miami, has his eye on remaking Cuba’s airports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“The light-filled residence was designed for seamless indoor-outdoor living, featuring a spectacular open floor plan,” the description read.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
That led to a change in how Ofsted assessed schools, bringing in report cards designed to grade schools on several areas, rather than focusing on one overall grade for the whole school.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
There are encouraging signs that vaccines designed against other virus species could offer at least some protection, but Bundibugyo remains an example of a dangerous pathogen for which dedicated medical tools are limited.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Another way to say that would be: it is designed this way so that we don’t crash.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
A ceiling on computing power, fewer frontier training runs or limits on AI systems designing their successors would strike much closer to the semiconductor industry.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
By combining and designing these gates, researchers can carry out a wide range of more complicated quantum operations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
AIs are already being used to answer decades-long unsolved complex mathematical problems, and have assisted scientists in speeding up scientific discovery and even designing new viruses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Luxury fashion houses do a better job of designing watches that appeal to women, but they lack credibility with sophisticated watch collectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Surely painting rickshaws wasn’t much harder than designing alpanas.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
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