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Industrial production in Germany recovered unexpectedly sharply in August, as manufacturing firms continued to respond to the changeable environment caused by volatile energy prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Representatives for GEO Group did not respond to a request for comment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
We also requested that the party respond to their critics, and are waiting for their response.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"We wanted to understand how African lions in human care respond when feeding routines more closely resemble those natural patterns."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Coal opened his mouth to respond, but Doc held up a hand.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Instead, the planet responds to the shifting weight of water, ice, and the atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
In his book “Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals,” published in 2023, Mr. Craiutu responds to two fictional zealots, Lauren and Rob, one an intolerant progressive, the other a hard-leaning rightist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Unlike Alice, Bryan is the audience stand-in: the average guy who responds to a mind-boggling, impossible situation as clumsily as you or I might.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Moreno responds to the noise with a quiet “uh oh.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Glad I’m gettin’ to see it,” Clay responds.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
OpenAI responded: “It is important to continue to evaluate our internal frontier models on mathematics and other sciences, so we can accelerate developing the tools to advance those fields.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
When Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told Skubal he would start the team’s playoff opener, Skubal responded with a question.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Speitan has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Cartilage samples collected during knee replacement surgeries responded to the treatment by beginning to produce new, functional cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The dragon responded by sending him a pair of pictures.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
The local prosecutor's office said police were responding to two men around 20 metres away who had fired fireworks in their direction.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Musk was responding to unconfirmed reports that Bastian had criticized him during employee meetings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
There is an objective set of facts, and you and your wife are responding to them differently.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"What makes this finding particularly interesting is that the sharks were responding to sounds beyond the acoustic near field, where the sound behaves differently than it does close to the source," Kajiura said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The fact that I wasn’t responding didn’t seem to slow him down.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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