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OpenAI executives have told employees they don’t want models to say “no” a lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"He gave us some little tidbits about what was going on, but he never knew anything about the Pan Am bombing. And he knew a lot about Megrahi," Holt says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Whether it was a weird way or not, we learned a lot about how to try to be able to maximize him,” McVay said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
He was convinced that keeping more herds of goats and sheep in the mountains "would really help a lot" in controlling wildfires.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Philippines has a lot of them, not just oil.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
They are being offered as separate lots in Before The Smiths: The Morrissey Letters, which will be held at Dawsons Auctioneers on 26 August.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
This city used to have lots of cheap, all-you-can eat venues like the South Point’s, money-losing restaurants that brought people in the door to gamble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
More complex compositions - with ultrafast trills and combinations that contain lots of information - are more common in temperate forests, where birds tend to communicate at closer range.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It’s a busy town where there are lots of people, lots of businesses, lots of traffic, the hectic pace of modern life — but still, the desert has its pull.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The side streets were still unpaved, fading out to the barren pebbly lots of a railyard and a gas plant.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
From the switch the ball is lotted through to Gomez, who again has a poor final touch and the ball reaches James.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Bridges will be al lotted $700 million for repairs, while the remaining $600 million will be devoted to highway safety programs and miscellaneous road projects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fust she thought she was a bud, like lots o’ buds all ’round her, and she lotted on openin’ like they did.
From Story-Tell Lib by Slosson, Annie Trumbull
The old estate, of about 150 acres, was lotted out for building in 1839, the sale being then conducted by Messrs. E. and C. Robbins, August 19.
From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.
It is thus settled by lottery that Tannappa and his under-share-holders are to cultivate the land of the principal share lotted under No. 1.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.
We’ll do our best for you—but I ain’t lotting much on Latisan’s showing up again.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
He has been lotting upon seeing you, maam.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline
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