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Traders are also keeping an eye on artificial intelligence this week, as tech CEOs and global leaders rub shoulders at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Traders will also be keeping an eye on artificial intelligence this week, as tech CEOs and global leaders rub shoulders at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

"And for them to rub shoulders with people in the music industry, and hopefully next year we can create a movement with some workshops," Dukagjin says.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

She was brashly optimistic in what she calls “the good old days,” thrilled to rub shoulders with Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and Liza Minnelli at Halston’s fabled glass-and-steel Upper East Side townhouse.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024

The whites I’d known loved to rub shoulders publicly with black folks in the after-hours clubs and speakeasies.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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