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It is a stark illustration of how one of the world’s last hunter-gatherer societies is being absorbed into the modern world.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
The dating test furnishes a neat illustration: three profiles—identical in every respect except astrological sign, all showing the same picture of a young man named “Michael”—were created on a popular Chinese dating app.
From Slate • May 5, 2026
It is a moving illustration of how a space can hold and contain — feel safe — while also holding an open sense of possibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
For illustration, $1,900 is currently the average individual monthly Social Security payment.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
An illustration which isn’t quite so vanilla: Assume a medical clinic tests blood for a certain disease from which approximately one person in a hundred suffers.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Florida EOC Biology 1
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