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Recent advances by IBM, IonQ, Nvidia, and others illustrate the new promise of the complex technology.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The best way to illustrate this equilibrium is with annuity payout rates — how much monthly income you could purchase with a given amount of money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
According to the researchers, those results illustrate how optical computation could provide a more secure and dependable foundation for some artificial intelligence systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
But studies by Yale researchers illustrate the need for more oversight of NIH grants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Innumerable examples are available to illustrate each mode of amalgamation.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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So even that episode actually illustrates that worries about precommitment are overblown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Their disagreement illustrates something missing from much of the current debate: We keep talking about AI as though it were one thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The MAL story also illustrates how much complexity is hidden behind the familiar letters A, B, AB and O.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
A study by economists at Tufts University on the effect that homeownership has on the wealth trajectory of low-income households illustrates the importance of timing.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Here is a famous story called The Monty Hall Problem which I have included in this book because it illustrates what I mean.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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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
It could quickly reverse, as illustrated earlier in the summer when assumptions about a deescalation in the US Iran conflict led to sharp falls in energy prices and yields.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Philippe recalled receiving illustrated letters almost every week, filled with drawings, doodles and notes of affection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The market timers’ unseemly rush for the exits is illustrated in the accompanying chart of the average recommended equity exposure among a subset of short-term market timers who focus on the Nasdaq stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 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
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It means that China has the leading two players in the rankings for the first time, further illustrating the country's position as a snooker superpower.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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
Also this week, the army landed an Apache attack helicopter at coast guard headquarters, illustrating increased integration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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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