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A millennium-old philosophy debate about what makes someone or something conscious is getting a twist in the age of artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

We host Thanksgiving every year, 14 people if everyone shows up, and the grandkids spend half of it out in the yard.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

In practice, the question of AI consciousness goes hand in hand with with the question of how humans should treat the technology.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

He says we’re heating rooms nobody uses, and he’s right that nobody has slept in the fourth bedroom since our youngest left 12 years ago.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

At one low point, she is so destitute that she walks into a pawn shop—a store that gives money in exchange for valuables—and pawns her Medal of Freedom.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

They discuss the ins and outs of government debt, the idea of state bankruptcy, and what lessons can be learned for future legislation.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2026

This has been a busy summer at Newcastle - both in terms of ins and outs - but tying Hall down is a particularly significant move.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

I’ve also heard from various people telling me their whole financial picture, down to the pennies in their accounts, and the ins and outs of their divorces, estate fights and bad relationships with financial professionals.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Similar experimental systems have long been used to study how heat moves through slow moving materials, making them useful stand ins for the rocky interiors of planets.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

With all the ins and outs, someone must have brushed against it, and the picture has twisted itself back around.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

In 1622 Sir Henry Appleton, the owner of the marsh, agreed to give one-third of it to Joas Croppenburg, a Dutchman skilled in the making of dikes, if he "inned" the marsh.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

They are likewise to carry home corn, which is not inned till August and September.

From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton

The last landed, inned, or stowed, of any sort of merchandise: so called by the water-side porters, carmen, &c.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Ashby isn’t pitching one inning at a time, like so many of his peers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

On his way to a 15-strikeout complete-game victory, he came to bat in the top of the ninth inning to resounding cheers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Game 6 of that matchup is often picked as the greatest in series history—because of its back-and-forth lead changes, its several great defensive plays and what happened in the bottom of the 12th inning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The next inning, the Brewers used a walk, a stolen base and David Hamilton’s single to knock Glasnow out of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Then, muttering thanks to the Goddess Kwan Yin, she flung her weary self into the armchair to seek solace in the uninterrupted enjoyment of the last inning.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord


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