discovery
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But restricting AI development asks them to forgo better cancer diagnostics, faster drug discovery, improved weather forecasting and productivity gains compounding across every sector.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
"We are looking at direct evidence of large-scale arms trading. This discovery reveals a network of exchange and communication that was far more complex than previously thought," he said.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
But now, the company has devoted itself to studying the backrooms — which, he explains, might be the biggest discovery in human history.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
This was not intended as a journey of discovery, it was a game to get their spirits up ahead of the main work ahead and that is exactly what it became.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
The Americans took possession of them and gave the man a few coins as a reward for his discovery.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing discovery
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