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One is a mode of being, the other, of happening.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
For the last year, Joel Galvez and Leanor Torres have been in survival mode.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
Platner, in damage-control mode, acknowledged that he was occasionally a lousy boyfriend but denied any sort of physical abuse, swore that he has cleaned up his act, and pledged that no more skeletons will emerge.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026
Though Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the number one in cross-border wealth management, rather than enter panic mode, Swiss banks seem unruffled -- feeling it bolsters the case against looming tighter banking regulations.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Hacking’s identification of probability theory as a particular mode of thought could, however, have served to clarify the intellectual alternatives that were available before the emergence of probability.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The Articles of Confederation (1777)
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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