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Mathias Clasen, the author of A Very Nervous Person’s Guide to Horror Movies, explains how jumpscares work, and how you can learn to love them—or at least tolerate them.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
"I'm sorry for what happened. I wish you can learn to forgive me one of these days."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Other exchanges and regulators have contacted the LSE to learn about how Pisces works, Simmons said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“AI should be about giving people more power over their own lives, more tools to create, learn, discover, expand knowledge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
“If you’re going to work with the underground, Tante Corrie, you must learn not to ask questions.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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There are the now-traditional scenes in which Carrie learns to consciously control her telekinetic superpowers, previously manifested by accidentally setting off car alarms, opening mailboxes and causing a rain of rocks on her parents’ roof.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Their weights, or the numeral parameters that the model learns throughout the training process, can be downloaded directly and run locally.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
After years of war, the mind learns to suppress reactions to danger, she says—a way of protecting the fragments of ordinary life that remain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
He fears an art passed down generations could disappear if no-one learns it.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
He follows Buttercup day to day, month to month, as she learns all the ways of curtsying and tea pouring and how to address visiting nabobs and like that.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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After a training-camp battle, Mestemaker learned that he’d again be buried on the depth chart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"We hope that lessons will be learned from Mia's death and that changes will be made to prevent other families enduring the devastation that we now have to live with," they said.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"I've never learned how to spin a car, you know, in a 180 and stop it on a mark," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
We also learned a bit more about how exactly officials justified their first rate increase in three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It must be that they have learned to understand human dumps—where they spend a great deal of time foraging.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Gradually, they learnt how it worked and grew confident using it.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
They learnt four dances, practised hard and rehearsed at home to prepare for the event, Fernhill House Care Home said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
"I have learnt so much, I have met people all around the world, and it has been delightful," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
He added: "We've also learnt that cool heads are needed, even in those most horrific of circumstances."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
He had learnt to think of the painted surface as a piece of glass that you look through.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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On Wednesday night, protesters in the square wept and embraced each other after learning the news.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
I went through this learning experience way back when I was a libertarian youngster and I read “The Triumph of Politics” by President Ronald Reagan’s libertarian budget director, David Stockman.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
OpenAI said those features have caused an uptick in teen use focused on learning, from study help to advice on their school work.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“For centuries,” he writes, “people have accepted that literature and learning are among the highest purposes and deepest consolations of human existence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
But I was getting used to the foul moods, even learning to read them a bit.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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