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And here’s where I counter that a movie about how algorithms destroy humanity has to have some credible humans in it, if only to illustrate its own point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The findings illustrate the reckless way in which the market for peptides is developing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Here’s what complicates the monster story, and what Hollywood has failed to illustrate in this movie: I also found a young man failed by nearly every system around him.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Recent advances by IBM, IonQ, Nvidia, and others illustrate the new promise of the complex technology.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
To illustrate nature’s musical laws we can use a piece of pipe or tubing.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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The agreement illustrates a historical pattern: The United States no longer needs to annex land to achieve its strategic objectives abroad.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Nevertheless, it illustrates how future rehabilitation systems might provide personalized guidance without requiring a room full of cameras and laboratory equipment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The unlikely alliance illustrates the increasingly desperate scramble for “compute,” the lifeblood of the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Secondary school teacher Marine Monins, who joined the demonstrations in Lille, shows us a laminated timetable which she says illustrates the problem.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Avianca accident so perfectly illustrates the characteristics of the “modern” plane crash that it is studied in flight schools.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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First published in 1926, Milne's story, illustrated by Ernest Howard Shepard, followed the tales of Christopher Robin and his friends, including Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
By 1943 servicemen could receive illustrated magazines, such as Newsweek and Time, in reduced-size formats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
There’s a method to all this madness, and it’s best illustrated by the fact that Vance is the one leading the charge.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Ah Sing illustrated its tortured central character, Aerius, as a muscled romance book cover star — with a twist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
They could weave, into the lovely stuffs they made, forms so lifelike anyone could see what tale they illustrated.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Dalio, the founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has warned for years of the dangers of surging government debt, illustrating the potential consequences in a series of books including his latest, “How Countries Go Broke.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In recent years, Unite Here Local 11 has filed numerous complaints over the Inglewood facility, claiming various wage and health issues, illustrating a bitter battle over movement at the bargaining table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Gakpo ranks in the 78th percentile for link-up play, the 75th for pass progression and the 67th for creative threat, illustrating his comfort combining in tight spaces and contributing to build-up play.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
That’s more than 3% of the country’s adult population, illustrating the feverish extent of stock market speculation and the danger of leverage.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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