design
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"They've all got meaning, and I like the fact that I can design them myself," says Hibbert, who works in an art gallery.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
ME: Was there a moment in fashion school when you realized you were absolutely sure fashion design was what you wanted to pursue as a career?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Whether the vagueness of the rules are by design to leave it open to transgender women or a sign of an oversight that genuinely needs tightening up is not clear.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Federal support could accelerate high-performance processor design, software tools and security while ensuring government-backed chips are fabricated, packaged and tested in the U.S. or allied countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
It was a snow-white shaving mug with a fancy design on it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Newer cars and trucks employ opposite frequency technology, which lowers road noise, silicone-based coating on door seals that cuts virtually all high-frequency whistling, and noise-dampening designs on windows, to name a few technologies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Rather than make chips itself, Arm provided its architecture and processor designs to companies including Apple, Qualcomm, Amazon and Nvidia, allowing them to build competing chips on a common technological foundation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Kubiak says that this had been down to flawed designs, and that manufacturers had since addressed concerns.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Um, well, your designs did have a lot of personality, but...”
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Additionally, the home has a den, built-in storage, curved staircase, outdoor movie pavilion, and 50-foot-long lap pool designed by Johnston Vidal.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The program is designed to help students “acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic motivations to guide personally meaningful academic journeys,” the school said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Our assurance and testing processes are designed to identify and address potential vulnerabilities early, and we continue to undertake routine security activity across our systems and equipment," the MoD added.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Cassini was designed to investigate Saturn and the wider Saturn system, including its rings, natural satellites and surrounding space environment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Buildings in the city, designed to withstand earthquakes, bent rather than broke as the ground beneath them rolled.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
The finding points to a new way of designing these next-generation energy devices for better performance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, designing the pressure tanks that help power its rocket.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
In 2013, Aflalo started designing and manufacturing clothes along with tailoring, and began selling them through a website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The most sustainable solution would be for retailers to slow down fashion cycles by designing products that are less trendy and more durable, said Vishal Agrawal, who researches sustainability in business at Georgetown University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Soviet scientists were designing new superbombs, more powerful than anything ever tested.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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