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literature

[lit-er-uh-cher, -choor, li-truh-] / ˈlɪt ər ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈlɪ trə- /


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In this approach intended for piloting robots, artificial-intelligence models are trained on videogames and simulations, rather than literature, code and images.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Nearly two-thirds of 11- and 12-year-olds have social media accounts, according to a 2025 literature review in the medical journal Current Pediatric Reports.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

The results of Operation Blue Skies are expected to be published in academic literature and opened to wider scientific scrutiny.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

The Nobel Prize in literature has always been highly Eurocentric, so it is odd that the Netherlands has never fielded a recipient.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

A whole literature was soon dedicated to these notions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 15, 2025

Now, a lot of people who have emigrated to the U.S. are bringing their literatures into English.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2023

Germanic languages and literatures department, had stood outside the courthouse earlier this month with a sign that read, “Nazis: Losers in 1945. Losers in 2021.”

From Washington Post Nov. 22, 2021

I like to peg trans writing to other minority literatures that came before it.

From Slate Jan. 21, 2021

Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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