development
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The paper says experts "blame devices for stunting development".
From BBC โ Oct. 13, 2026
Many such firms were involved in local real-estate development and have been hit hard by China’s yearslong property bust.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Oct. 12, 2026
It provides yearlong professional development to Title I school teachers, who bring museum-developed arts curricula into their classrooms.
From Los Angeles Times โ Oct. 12, 2026
The move to the French capital is designed to accelerate the event's European development, they added.
From Barron's โ Oct. 11, 2026
And the one big thing he knew was that America’s future as a nation lay to the West, in its development over the next century of a continental empire.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Saturday saw dramatic developments as police officials boarded the flight to detain Dipke, Das and Ranka as their plane landed.
From BBC โ Oct. 11, 2026
After congratulating the crew on completing thousands of combat missions with “zero casualties, zero flight mishaps, and zero working toilets,” Jost’s Hegseth offered an update on developments back home.
From Salon โ Oct. 11, 2026
These applications remain potential future developments rather than established treatments.
From Science Daily โ Oct. 11, 2026
But the developments have sparked backlash in many countries, with a Finnish authority recently ordering work to halt on two Google data centre sites pending mandatory environmental assessments.
From Barron's โ Oct. 11, 2026
None of the crucial developments preceding political centralization in those same parts of the world were associated with river valleys or with complex irrigation systems.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 4
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