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Also present were dignitaries from 29 countries that a day earlier had signed up to create a new China-led body to promote global AI cooperation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Symptoms of infections by cyclosporiasis can take about two weeks to present.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
If a legislator is visiting for an inspection, they are now required to present privacy waivers for each detainee they want to speak with, which must be signed by the detainee.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Clark said her singing register was now lower, but the magic was still present.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Happy birthday, Butt! We have a present just for you.”
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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"He presents himself as the best surgeon in Kyrgyzstan, but he's just a kind of 'butcher' of Kyrgyzstan," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
As if not wanting to be mistaken for any sort of Good Time, the series presents itself in a desaturated palette, through what can feel at times like a scrim of dust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
James Chace presents the presidential election of 1912 as a watershed moment in which four politicians fought over “the central question of America’s exceptional destiny.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Torsten Slok, Apollo chief economist, presents a new study from Ramp, linking AI spending to workforce records across 21,559 U.S. firms.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“Did you really think Grandma and Grandpa would send us presents, but not you? We’re triplets. That’s how it works.”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Readers of Mr. Stannard’s biography will find much of the material in “Like a Cat Loves a Bird” familiar, albeit presented in a highly condensed form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Simulations presented in the paper suggest that these changes should further improve PLATON's spatial resolution.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
"Nothing presented shows evidence of any vote manipulation," Charles Stewart, an elections expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
He presented as a cash buyer, having already sold his farmhouse in Oxfordshire.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The reason they’d done this is that the rating agencies, presented with the pile of bonds backed by dubious loans, would pronounce 80 percent of the bonds in it triple-A.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The experience showed her “there is demand for presenting yourself virtually and there’s a way to convey your cover-letter materials” that can get past new filters for job applications, which are fixated on certain keywords.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
What a happy crowd they looked, even presenting President Trump with his own jersey, No. 47.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
He joined BBC Radio 1 in 1973, presenting the station's US chart show for 18 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The canvases we see behind him are blank, or turned away from the viewer, a testament to the uneasiness he felt presenting himself and his work to the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Guiteau left, but he came back less than a week later, presenting his card to the usher as he had done before.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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