independent

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Tehran has a willing buyer for its oil in China, where independent “teapot” refiners scooped up the cargoes, often at major discounts to benchmark oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Many independent cyber-security analysts and experts have not yet been able to test it themselves and some remain sceptical about Mythos' performance.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Bearstar Strategies said in a statement last week that it had suspended all activity on Swalwell’s independent expenditure.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Brian Jabarian, a University of Chicago economist who conducted a rigorous independent evaluation of A.I. detectors, told me flatly, “This narrative that we shouldn’t use A.I. detection doesn’t seem to hold anymore.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Germany would also lose large chunks of territory to Belgium and other neighboring states, to newly independent Poland, and to other newborn nations created by Allied statesmen as they redrew the map of Europe.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman