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When asked if he'd ever retire, his answer was simple - "I hope not."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
It’s unlikely that a fix for the East-West pipeline will be simple, judging by the satellite images showing “a wide area that looks pretty charred over,” Smith said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Phillips, the Los Angeles-area retiree, has always stuck with simple annuities—five-year fixed-rate policies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The answer, Khanna argued, was simple: Make the companies liable for the harm executives say looks increasingly inevitable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
I thought back a year ago, to our last Christmas with Togbe—the faces around the table, the meal we’d shared, their joy at my simple gifts—and the breath caught in my throat.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Social media has many users trapped in nostalgia loops, desperately clinging to a simpler era that wasn’t so uniquely mired in digital discontent.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
That could make the process faster, simpler, and less vulnerable to errors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The network said it planned to focus on creating a simpler and more efficient operating model and enable greater investment in distinctive programming.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
What she does is much simpler: She reads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Robots are, of course, manufactured on Earth, but their shipment through space is much simpler if it can be done in parts to be put together at their place of use.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
The suspense often comes down to the simplest question: Is this thing going to blow up?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Sometimes the most powerful messages come in the simplest packages.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, are government-issued bonds that in the simplest terms pay a yield on top of the rate of inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
They developed a method that allowed the researchers to arrange metabolic reactions from the simplest to the most complex.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
My father was obsessed with Occam’s razor, which, in short, says that the simplest solution is the best solution.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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