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The transaction is the first of its kind, seeing as Strategy last sold Bitcoin back in 2022 solely for tax purposes.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Their imaginations seem to have been fed on solely on “Starship Troopers” and little else except maybe some Tolkien.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
More than ever, in the age of AI and robotics, it is no longer possible to rely solely on the ‘invisible hand’ of the market.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
"Putting so many resources solely into repression, with ever more police, doesn't work," Fournier told the BBC.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
In the post-Columbus, post-Galilean world no one could dispute that important discoveries depended solely on the corroboration of eyewitnesses.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"Shooting an Elephant"
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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5.4: The Second Industrial Revolution (Sources 1–8)
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