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But there might be another, less promising explanation, according to Krinsky: The correlation between bitcoin and software stocks may simply be starting to break down.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
"Our work provides the first physical explanation of these materials while accounting for most-if not all-of their documented properties," says Rak.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026
Thucydides was partial to naturalistic explanation and, no stranger to eclipses himself, might well have offered Pericles’ nervous helmsman a cloak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Almost any explanation can be labeled race neutral in the abstract.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
At first Penelope panicked; she thought they might have somehow caught the strange moon sickness endured by Lord Fredrick Ashton, but the true explanation was simpler: The children had fleas.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing explanation
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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