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AI agents currently on the European market rarely prompt users to look to discount providers, they note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Similar signals could accompany other short GRBs but may have gone unnoticed because earlier missions were not able to capture prompt emission at energies below the gamma-ray range.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Those events could prompt the committee to this year choose a laureate who enjoys broad consensus, such as an individual or organisation working to protect children or humanitarian efforts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Diedrichs said unless the designers prompt AI to show realistic or diverse features, "it's going to give you an image that defaults to the average" data set of the "narrow" traditional beauty standards.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Menelaos knew him now, and so fell silent with uncertainty whether to let him speak and name his father in his own time, or to inquire, and prompt him.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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However, it includes a suggested comment from policy officials "if the coverage prompts any questions at committee".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Researchers posing as teenagers with San Francisco Bay Area-based accounts tested more than 4,000 prompts before and after the launch of ChatGPT for Teens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Mistral said the model was trained on more than 160 languages, and can answer prompts and questions in each one natively.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
We selected these two prompts to demonstrate the variability of results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Keegan tries to dig himself out from under his own heap of counterevidence by repeatedly issuing pronouncements about what an unidentified “we” stubbornly and defensively believe—which only prompts the reader to think, “Speak for yourself!”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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It produced for one prompter a schematic of a jet engine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
To keep that rhythm, the prompter has to talk over the other actor’s lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Those accounts accused Harris of making use of the prompter to answer questions from the audience, asked in English and Spanish, causing Univision producers to set the record straight late Thursday night.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024
I'd like to see how she performs more off the cuff and without an ability to read from the prompter.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024
Nevertheless some little disappointment was felt by those who had hoped for a prompter solution.
From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 by Various
The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The day Yastrzemski steps out, museum curators will mark him for promptest delivery.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The officers to whom the orders were sent, were the promptest of men, and although my regiment formed rapidly, the others were marching by the time that it was ready to move.
From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke
I called for Hays, but he, the promptest of men, and his splendid regiment, could not be found.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
The unusually early start to the season has prompted local health officials to urge people to get their flu shots as soon as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
He reversed into a post while on holiday in Greece, which prompted him to look up the symptoms of ADHD.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
This is not the first public health concern that prompted individuals to offer unproven medical solutions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
While sales have improved, higher costs to support those sales prompted the company to cut its full-year profit outlook.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
I was going to say thank you before she prompted me, even though I hated almost every minute of the party.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
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Concerns about camera hacking are prompting fresh efforts to tighten security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The country has been grappling with the fallout from an investment fund scandal which erupted in mid-September, prompting prosecutors to investigate allegations of widespread market manipulation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
But the minority coalition failed to pass the measures in parliament, prompting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to call the early vote on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Lane said that in 2022, businesses raised their prices rapidly and boosted their profits, prompting larger pay demands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The island had come under repeated assault, prompting a resurfacing of Olmsted’s old anger about the compulsion of clients to tinker with his landscapes.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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