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It said the school leaned on how applicants answered “hardship” questions — which ask students how they overcame disadvantages — as a proxy for race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The 23-year-old says even that has been difficult for him, recalling how in June his memory chip-focused investments fell by more than 10% in just one day.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Shay Boloor, chief market strategist at Futurum, noted that Kimi K3 was already trained before the issue emerged of how to serve the model at scale.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Details of how it actually worked are few.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“How’d you know how to take out a bullet?”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Longtime ‘SportsCenter’ anchor Shae Cornette has been named the new hows of ‘First Take,’ ESPN’s popular sports debate show starring Stephen A. Smith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
"We have decided to study in great detail the hows and whys of why premature birth affects the developing brain," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
I love that Beranbaum specifies weights in grams as well as ounces, and almost every recipe includes pro tips that explain the whys, whats and hows behind her methods.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
I have to hear the hows and whys and what-ifs.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
