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[pees] / pis /




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"We provided the missing piece of the puzzle needed to completely describe the optical cycle of spin defects," Galli said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

"But we're only going to be able to extract so much out of that domestic and local market. We won't fully recover until that international piece comes back," Gallagher warned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

On Wednesday, the prime minister's official spokesman said: "The home secretary is leading a thorough piece of work to make sure we get this right."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” is less a procedural thriller than a wistful mood piece about the passage of time, what’s lost, what’s left behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Like Brie wants Teddy to do— instead of learning to write his name before he’s ready or needing to put every piece of a puzzle in the right place.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Could CEOs at bigger companies use pieces of this playbook?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

He was too scared to take off his blindfold and remove any shield pieces from the faithfuls, leaving the dirty work - and all the risk - to fellow traitors Maya Jama and King Kenny.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Matisse Thybulle and Ziaire Williams are the final pieces to the Lakers’ much-anticipated starting lineup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Devils,’ in the way it was meant to be seen, is one of the most important pieces of art ever created.”

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

But without reservations, I recommend that she join you at Bell System, the letter had read—the letter that ended up crumpled in my pocket, and then disintegrated in pieces on the floor of my locker.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

By combining observations from telescopes in Australia, the United States, India, South Africa, and space, the scientists pieced together a clearer picture of how black holes behave as they consume matter.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Details of residents’ deaths were, in many cases, pieced together from hearsay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

It’s a collection of songs pieced together from perfect-seeming snippets heard while passing open doors.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Investigators have pieced together much of what they know about Burke and Hernandez’s allegedly illegal relationship from a search of the singer’s cellphone, which was seized last September.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

It has been suggested that flagellae and cilia were once spirochetes that joined up with the other prokaryotes when nucleated cells were being pieced together.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

By piecing together historical documents and scientific observations, the team uncovered an error that changes the timeline of the earliest known technological disruptions caused by space weather.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Or is there a point at which an elderly parent owes their adult children enough financial information that they’re not left piecing together a life from scratch?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

“We’ve been piecing it together. We knew it was a news chopper. We knew we had lost contact with our people out there. Now we have confirmation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

An ambiguous exploration of literature and voyeurism, the Nobel laureate’s 1997 novel follows a middle-aged clerk who becomes obsessed with piecing together the life of a woman he doesn’t know.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The rest of the story poured out haltingly, as if Bebe were only now piecing the scene together herself.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng


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