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Many of the diet’s principles are surprisingly simple, which could explain its enduring popularity and effectiveness and why nutrition experts often describe it as an eating pattern rather than a diet.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
The usual assumption is that professors are indoctrinating students, but that’s too simple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the writers don’t paint Macon as a simple villain, or anyone else as a cut-and-dried protagonist.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Five years on, there are no simple or swift solutions.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Theo, whose entire point is that he makes life seem simple, that we never ask anything of each other.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
By contrast, the Daily Mail opts for a much simpler single-word headline "Inferno" across a picture of burning houses in the West Midlands.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The family typically spends a little over a month each year in Europe, and having residency in a local country would make travel simpler and allow them to stay for longer periods of time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
There are currently simpler ways for intelligence agencies or cybercriminals to monitor people, Felix Morsbach notes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Exchange-traded funds make that simpler since they pay out those gains as dividends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Since the story of each is practically the same as that of the other it is simpler to take it for granted that there was only one.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
The simplest approach would be to amend the statutory language to stipulate that, similar to the GAO, the Federal Reserve is “an instrumentality of the United States Government independent of the executive departments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The simplest way to get a general idea of whether you’ve saved enough for retirement is to start with one basic equation: Income minus spending equals what you need from your savings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Walking, Justice PS Narasimha wrote, is "the simplest of the simple human activity, inextricably connected to life".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
So the simplest way to write a triad is as a stack of thirds, in root position.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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