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material

[muh-teer-ee-uhl] / məˈtɪər i əl /






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"That was a computer which was used in journalism, and there are protections for journalistic material," McGuinness said.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

“We also accounted for today’s elevated construction and material costs, along with the time and complexity involved in securing permits and approvals.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

In “The Permanent Problem,” Brink Lindsey contends that capitalism has “delivered” in providing mass abundance, but now that “the task is to convert material plenty into widespread spiritual riches, it is floundering.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

"We employ a straightforward stacking approach to integrate ultra-thin materials with metasurfaces, overcoming the technical challenges of direct material growth on photonic structures, and enabling further advances in valleytronics," Dr. Xing said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

The material is sticky like sap and intricate like the spiderwebs Ma always tells me to clean out of our basement.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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