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Before retiring the officer provided a statement that he had called her to advise of the intended police response to a media query, and about how information about the case could be reported and used.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The common query about home schooling should be flipped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare policy analyst, said asking specific questions can be more helpful than simply inputting a general query when using AI tools.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a query for comment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Sticky sent their query at once: Please advise about cheating.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
The San Francisco-based AI lab also accused Chinese developers of deceptively using Claude to produce responses to user queries while simultaneously "distilling" that data to improve their own models.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
That means that each Asimov chip is loaded with up to 2.3 terabytes of memory, making it especially suited to fast processing of AI queries, known as inference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
WSJLI: Are the token limits effective at getting employees to think more critically about their AI queries?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A county judge has even complained that Paxton’s office is not responding in a timely manner to queries about how the state wishes to proceed in court, now that multiple hemp businesses have filed lawsuits.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
He was greatly solicitous of my welfare following the battle, and asked me many sharp questions regarding it; which queries it was not in my power at first to answer.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Monday’s research queried people about their jobs, how often they use AI and how they use it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
When queried by AFP about the Washington Post report, the White House sent a statement defending the new plane's safety.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Target, she’d be queried about where to find the Christmas decorations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
After the call, analyst Brian Finneran launched an informal poll on his Bloomberg Terminal in which he queried investors and other analysts about their preferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
“You mean it adapted itself to the fly swatter?” queried Phineas.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
After his side's opening 1-1 draw with Saudi Arabia in Miami on Monday, he was unimpressed with journalists querying his stance, amid suggestions it might be some kind of protest.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
An October 2025 report from the Justice Department Inspector General found that the FBI has “implemented all of RISAA’s querying reforms” and that the number of noncompliant queries had been “reduced substantially.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
The strategy starts with Amazon’s homegrown AI chips, called Trainium and Inferentia, which are specialized, respectively, for training models and querying them for results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
"Some were querying 'have we reached peak Greggs?' and we have gone out...to demonstrate that this is not the case," the food retail boss said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
I can almost feel the querying powers gathering in her forehead.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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