represent

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The Cliffwater fund owns thousands of different investments, and the Ares and Blue Owl stakes represent a tiny percentage of its assets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Bottom line: Airbnb won’t accept photos that do not represent the reality of the space.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Although only a small fraction of schizophrenia patients carry mutations in grin2a, the researchers suggest that dysfunction in this circuit may represent a shared mechanism underlying cognitive impairments in some patients.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

From up in the sky, a kindly female voice claims that Brazil wants “to ensure the protection of those who represent the history of our people.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

In Eumenides, Apollo, chosen to represent Orestes in his murder trial, mounts a strikingly original argument: he reasons that Orestes’s mother is no more than a stranger to him.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee