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Artificial intelligence may seem like the prevailing force in the market, but some of the tech sector’s biggest losers this month suffered for reasons unrelated to cracks in the AI trade.

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"Due to the influence of this system, the prevailing heavy showers and strong winds over the island are expected to continue," the DMC said.

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Further - more temporary - snow will fall on Monday in the Highlands as rain spreads in across the UK with milder prevailing southwesterly winds.

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In several interviews released before “Pluribus” debuted, Gilligan repeats an insistence common to storytellers whose work happens to meet the prevailing sentiments of a specific moment.

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The team argues that this deep heat source is not a leftover feature from when North America separated from Northwest Africa 180 million years ago, which had long been the prevailing view.

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