inquiry
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The government began an inquiry last year into whether ad firms were funneling client dollars away from certain media platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
In response to a Salon inquiry, an EduBirdie spokesperson insisted that “the term ‘tradwife’ isn’t necessarily associated with not working.”
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
The inquiry had earlier heard a number of experts had been instructed by the CPS to assess Calocane and his defence had also produced its own psychiatric report.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Open inquiry, honest engagement with evidence, the willingness to follow reasoning wherever it leads—these aren’t arbitrary cultural preferences; they are the conditions under which intelligence flourishes at scale.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Atomic physicists were particularly interested in biology; it was the unexplored frontier of scientific inquiry.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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