lesson

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It took an import collapse and a price spike for a rather predictable lesson to land.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Faintly terrifying though it is, it’s an object lesson in the Fleischers’ expansive view of animation’s possibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

The vulnerability was real, but the larger lesson was mostly missed: organizations let technical debt pile up until a deadline turns it into a crisis.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

And that’s a lesson I still carry with me every day.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

Penelope asked, for after her painful lesson of the previous day, she knew it would be optoomuchstic to try to find Lord Fredrick’s club by, say, following the smell of expensive cigars.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood