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“Over the years, we have received valuable assistance from people with an interest in genealogy and family history who have taken the time to research family trees and share information with our investigators,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nancy received a bachelor’s degree at Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree at the University of California, Berkeley, before working in foreign-policy research for Nelson Rockefeller when he was governor of New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Greens cited research by Global Action Plan, , externalan environmental charity, which suggested large centres could consumer 1.5m litres per day.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Published in Science, the research comes at a timely moment: a strengthening El Nino in the equatorial Pacific is projected to become the strongest ever recorded, surpassing other major years including 2015, 1997, and 1982.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
After much research, study, testing, and consulting, the team chose the first panda for freedom in the wild: Xiang Xiang, a captive-born and -raised cub who was roughly two years old when training began.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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Bauer researches historical and contemporary right-wing movements in the United States and recently wrote a book called “Making the Liberal Media.”
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Mia village emerged in 1966 after the first blind fortune-teller settled there, according to the Seongbuk Cultural Centre, which researches the district's history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Most board governance experts will all agree that that is not a great setup,” said Geoff Green, the CEO of CalNonprofits, an organization that researches and advocates for nonprofits in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Dr Elizabeth Nassem from the University of Bradford researches school bullying and says uniform rules, many rooted in "Victorian era" thinking, are increasingly out of step with the realities facing young people today.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Boyle and Newton devoted an enormous amount of effort to alchemical researches.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Pal researched multi-GPU parallelization, or ways of stitching many chips together, at Nvidia, and later co-founded Auradine, a bitcoin miner, where he designed what he describes as the lowest-voltage chip ever shipped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Mr. Stannard set to work and produced “Muriel Spark: The Biography,” a large, meticulously researched and evenhanded book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
As part of their studies, they researched other single-handed pianists - such as Nicholas McCarthy and Leon Fleisher - who had made successful careers.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
At Yerord Mas, a second-generation son of the city takes the cooking of his people and turns it into something personal, deeply researched, modern in lightness and inspiringly delicious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
When she’d first stumbled across the notion of Wyrdgates, days ago, it had seemed interesting, and so she’d researched, digging through piles of old parchment, only to find more puzzling theories.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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Cotlar compared her rhetoric to a conservative anti-communist newspaper publisher he’s been researching: Walter Huss.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Later, he spends his time reading, researching and talking to sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and AI experts to try to stay ahead of where the technology is going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He recalls spending hours in the British Library researching property laws going back to the 14th Century, so that when challenged he was armed with the facts.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Plus, I didn’t waste hours researching and booking a la carte accommodations myself, where I could easily lose track of the trip’s total price tag.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
“First of all, if you have not yet picked a topic for your science report, please, please come and talk to me after class. You should be well into researching it by now.”
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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