surveying
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Surveying his own time, Fiedler concludes that this gothic literary mode still captures most fully what he describes as “an era of universal war, alienation from nature, failed revolutions, genocide, and ideological self-deception.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Surveying the wreckage of a week of AI disruption Hartnett observes it’s spreading like wildfire: insurance brokers Monday, wealth advisors Tuesday, real-estate services Wednesday and logistics Thursday.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026
Surveying the damaged pumping equipment and a grim lake of sewage at the Sheikh Radwan wastewater plant, Fletcher said the task ahead for the UN and aid agencies was a "massive, massive job".
From Barron's • Oct. 18, 2025
Surveying 13,000 people, some of whom I found via my writing about the dress on Slate, I found that people’s assumptions about the light source strongly affected the colors they saw.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2025
It was part of a multivolume set called Narrative of the Surveying Voyages ofHMS Adventure and Beagle Between the years 1826 and 1836.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
