inform
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Top AI companies and security firms regularly publish threat reports involving the technology to inform the public and their partners about potential dangers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
National climate assessments are important because their projections can inform federal infrastructure planning, risk assessments, regulations, disaster preparedness and cost-benefit analyses, including from hazards such as wildfires, floods, drought and sea-level rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The next day, she said, two social workers called to her home to inform her that they would be holding a child safeguarding conference with a view to putting Zac on the CPR.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"We feel responsible for starting to inform society about the rapid and dynamic technological changes which personally frighten us," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
This type of processing may have implications for teaching, and awareness of the brain’s reaction to music can help inform teaching strategies and techniques.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Patricia “Pat” Phillips informs the police that “he was not in that frame of mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I’ve got to say, it’s really different, but what we learned from “Boyhood” really informs it, for sure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
It informs why he thinks he survived being shot five times point-blank: “I believe god saved me,” he said.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
This partly informs the team’s forecast for Fed policy through 2027.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
She just hugs me some more and tells me she loves me, and after a game of gin rummy Mom gently informs her that it’s time to go.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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“Mike Aiello and his team have informed us that they are leaving the firm for a smaller platform,” Weil said in a statement Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nearby residents said they were informed that an 8ft sinkhole had begun forming on Monday.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Staff and trade union partners have been informed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
An informed source said half the money would come from France's state investment bank Bpifrance, and the rest from South Korea.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Marvellers rescued all magical creatures from Fewel cities,” he informed her.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The targets are groups that send mailers to public employees informing them of their rights, under the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The findings suggest that studying the genetics of personality could have implications well beyond psychology, potentially informing research in medicine, health, education and the workplace.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
On Aug. 19, Turpin got an email from a Slater attorney, informing him that the claims administrator had launched an audit of some of the firm’s lawsuits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Whether the added punctuation has the effect the author imagines, she’s not wrong to point out that editorial decisions, once made, tend “to stick, informing how future readers will interpret a story or character.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Then it vanished, and a message flashed on my display informing me that the quarter had automatically been added to my inventory.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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