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ICI also takes the position that existing state law already includes the “return to post office” standard, which is at odds with the controller’s view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
I feel as though I’ve spent much of my summer taking shots at “Obsession” gussying up its thin characterizations to fool people into thinking it’s anything more than your standard horror sludge.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
The all-electric cars are the first robotaxis offering rides on the roads without standard driver features like a dashboard and pedals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Under these conditions, the interaction between light and sound becomes more than 1000 times stronger than it is in standard optical fibers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Although this is not typical or standard notation, there are very specific musical attributes that can be visually represented such as sound, silence, and duration or the length of the sound.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Every user I knew complained it was inconsistent, illogical, cluttered, had clunky navigation and ignored accessibility standards.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
He added that franchise-heavy chains often struggle because the hundreds to thousands of independent owners don’t always agree with corporate leadership on things like menu prices, labor practices, and operations standards.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Much of his input made it into the final social studies standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Matt Crooks: Dominated the central midfield battle, industrious and encouraging while never letting his own standards slip.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
By this argument, belief in demonic magic ought not to have declined until there was a general improvement in living standards, and perhaps not until the development of the welfare state.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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