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[loop] / lup /




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Ukrainian Ministry of Defense rules require keeping humans in the loop for “combat” decisions, meaning that humans verify targets in the “final stages of interception.”

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

The loop, also known as the Mach Loop, is an attraction for aviation enthusiasts and photographers.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Since the model was proposed, similar ideas have appeared in several modern attempts to unite gravity and quantum mechanics, including string theory and loop quantum gravity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Slowing upfront model training doesn’t stop that loop, and arguably just redirects compute budgets elsewhere, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

He reached into an overall pocket, behind a belt loop, and drew out a twist of paper.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The venom peptides that snakes and snails use are built as closed loops, which is what lets them survive intact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

A lack of distributions and write-offs reduces available funds that underpin economic activity, creating adverse feedback loops.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

"I'm just trying to view myself as a manager, and I'm managing some people, and I'm also managing AI agents, or AI loops, or whatever you want to call it."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The new Whigs record is a strong collection of material that stands solidly amongst the existing catalog of v2 Whigs albums, with big rockers, piano ballads, and tape loops neatly nestled against guitar feedback.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

The Seine’s loops shone like a great unwinding spool of silver mesh off the port wingtip.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Bernd Leno: On his toes to make an early save from Lisandro Martinez and scrambling when Matheus Cunha's effort looped on to a post.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

After getting as close to the White House as security checkpoints would allow, I looped back toward the Capitol building.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

“The customer was just providing details when her husband came forward and grabbed the mobile phone started argument and cut the call,” a worker had scrawled in looped letters on a preprinted form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

He raced into the Newcastle penalty area and when Dan Burn made a last-ditch tackle, the ball bounced off the Egypt forward and looped into the net.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Keeping a mound of earth between himself and Brother Rufus, Matthias silently looped the rope around a projection at the edge of the parapet.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The show also includes examples from his mid-1980s shift toward more colorful hues, calligraphy-like glyphs and looping lines that collectively confirmed him as one of the most influential abstract painters of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Another untitled 11-by-14-inch print from 1979 records the fire-burnished remains of the looping Thrifty sign above a Westwood drugstore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Prof Ramesh says a CME occurs when these twisting, looping lines - which resemble braided hair - rupture, throwing out massive clouds of magnetised plasma and gas in space.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

That left open the possibility that sprinklers with more complicated forms, including the curved and looping tubes found in silly sprinklers, might behave differently.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

Behind us, what should have been a celebration of a new High King continues: the shrieking, the feasting, the whirling around in endless looping dances.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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