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The tech giant has also increased its investment in AI security in proportion with its investment in AI, Mr Pichai added.

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The price of goods shipped from these countries will likely rise in proportion with the tariffs, leading to significant jumps in sticker prices.

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"It's around three euros for a normal person, if you put in proportion to Bezos's wealth," Lorenzo from Extinction Rebellion said.

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In the rare encounters he has with other humans, he enjoys quoting favorite passages from it, such as: “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

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He also has a blue check mark, which once signified authenticity on Twitter but now signifies that an X account pays a few bucks a month and is eligible to receive revenue from Elon Musk in proportion to how many people see its posts.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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