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And there are fewer detained immigrants — facilities across the country held about 60,000 detainees in April, compared to more than 70,000 in late January.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Perhaps surprisingly, Germany also have comparatively fewer minutes in their projected starting side.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

For example, the Goldman note highlighted that 54% of companies discussed AI productivity on their first-quarter earnings calls, but only 11% quantified the benefits, while even fewer, just 2%, quantified the impact on earnings.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

While organizations like Visa can invest in automated remediation systems, many suppliers, software vendors and open-source projects operate with far fewer security resources.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Some, like pentatonic and octatonic scales, have fewer or more notes per octave, but many have seven tones, just as a major scale does.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones