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“This is a different thing,” McVay said, adding that Nacua on Thursday, “felt good but didn’t feel totally like himself, his ability to be able to kind of open up and really hit full speed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
It was humbling to see how the AI got my friend to open up in a way that I hadn’t, and I recognized that its questions were much more helpful than my answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"And they open up exciting possibilities for future research into how we might trigger these effects more directly -- with diet, lifestyle, or new medicines."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, doesn’t think Warsh will open up and be more transparent in his Jackson Hole speech.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
I open up to the map again and I follow Ben’s arrows from our farm down the river and thru the swamp and then outta the swamp as it turns back into river.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
