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The research, supported by the US National Science Foundation, Google, MassMutual, and other funders, found that this new framework accounted for more than 90% of the variation in measured word meaning.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
McCarthy named the boy Cullen, an anglicized form of a Gaelic word meaning, roughly, “young hound” or “handsome one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The title, “Koyaanisqatsi,” comes from the Hopi word meaning “life out of balance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
It said it often used the term "Riba", an Arabic word meaning "excess" and commonly used to describe the prohibition of interest under Islamic law.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
In the fields, Japanese women would sing bolehole bushi—holehole is a Hawaiian word meaning “stripping leaves,” and bushi is Japanese for “song.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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