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One of Duan's favorite classroom demonstrations helps illustrate the phenomenon.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

To illustrate the concept, the patent application gives examples of what Meta might record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

That era’s prime-time schedules illustrate the tension between insistent progress and a yearning for supposedly simpler times – a feeling similar to what we’re experiencing now.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

Again, this is simply to illustrate the principle.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

She closed her eyes for a moment as if to illustrate how they would speak.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

As Dan Kois illustrates in this ode to kicking back with friends, spending unstructured time together is a blessedly simple cure to the ills of modern life.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Han said the project illustrates how data science can uncover meaningful public health trends instead of simply producing statistics.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

For Collins, Louise's experience illustrates a wider failure of enforcement.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

The film’s merit is not simply in how it illustrates the structures that bind and confine, but in how Wilde propulsively peels them apart to create a picture of romantic neuroses anyone can relate to.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

As Table 11.1 illustrates, others of our familiar infectious diseases can similarly be traced back to diseases of our animal friends.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

This is illustrated in the accompanying chart, which shows the perfectly inverse correlation between trader size and the probability of profit — known as “edge.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

By now, it is globally renowned, as illustrated by this latest batch of candidates.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The concept is illustrated by the Carnot cycle, an idealized model that defines the maximum theoretical efficiency of a heat engine by carefully regulating the movement of heat between hot and cold regions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

This “pulling back from the brink” behavior is illustrated in the accompanying chart, which plots the average recommended equity exposure among a subset of several dozen short-term market-timing newsletters.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

The heavily illustrated volume, just 165 pages long, presented incontrovertible evidence that humans and chimpanzees were built to the same body plan.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

In the finale, the officers team up against the judges, illustrating the power of working together, like our family.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

In Columbus, Ohio, officials pointed to Austin as an example illustrating the city’s own growth challenges so it could “pivot quickly…and make that intervention early,” says Erin Prosser, the city’s deputy director of housing strategies.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

The shot of the car hurtling off the cliff is one of cinema’s most enduring images, illustrating unbreakable friendship, victory and freedom.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Higher energy prices ratcheted up the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation in March, illustrating why plans for further rate cuts have grown divisive at the central bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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