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research

[ri-surch, ree-surch] / rɪˈsɜrtʃ, ˈri sɜrtʃ /




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Government can use its purchasing and research policies to reward strong security and safety practices without prescribing how a rapidly changing technology must develop.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

Oil markets remain caught between Middle East supply risks and prospects for diplomacy, according to Lukman Otunuga, head of market research at FXTM.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

In 2019, they published research indicating that penguins originated near Australia and New Zealand roughly 22 million years ago.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

He held particular scorn for the flat-earthers, who he thought were plants to discredit genuine research about extraterrestrial technology.

From Slate Sep. 22, 2026

As I’ve said many, many times, my vision is historical research.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“When Apple does anything, it gets the spotlight,” said Tarun Pathak, who researches the global smartphone industry for Counterpoint.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

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

Jack Birch, who researches public health and obesity at Newcastle University, says there is growing academic interest in how men and women approach using weight-loss drugs differently.

From BBC Aug. 17, 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

By day, Evans is a kindly and now semiretired minister in the Uniting Church in Australia, who does a bit of freelance work and researches the history of nineteenth-century religious movements.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Some administration officials privately researched Sacks’s businesses to see if the venture investor could personally profit by blocking regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

I’ve researched the revenues of both locations and can comfortably afford to do this.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

That’s how Wagner found Daniel Paul, an architectural historian who researched and documented the 38-foot-tall cupola-style structure built in 1960 by Van Tassel, who ascribed it miraculous powers including antigravity, rejuvenation and time travel.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

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

And so, if I overheard mention of something I was ignorant about—keeping Kosher, Tammany Hall, haute couture— I researched it later on.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

She took some steps toward that goal, including researching programs that help first-time home buyers.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

By researching court records and newspapers, Mr. White discovered new information about this important neighborhood, comprising some 264 people in 1855, which was torn down during the construction of Central Park.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Part of that work involves researching which coral species are able to better withstand rapidly warming oceans as a result of human-caused climate change.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Heder would work for two years on researching and developing the project with Heumann, interviewing dozens of people involved in the actual Carter-era protest.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

If I got caught with a Cocoon, then all that extra training, the extra simulations, the hours and hours in the library researching, would be for what?

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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