switch
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“I flipped the light switch on and took about two more steps, and there’s a man standing there,” Roebuck recalls, “a little short guy, holding a rifle in his hand.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark later told the BBC that a "kill switch" controlled by a third party may need to be mandatory for the industry.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy is seeking passage of legislation requiring AI companies to maintain a "kill switch" allowing them to shut down dangerous systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
That narrative, the switch, the whiplash of that made me feel like OK, so these last nine years have been for what?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
And then she’d make the switch, and she’d feel like she could see fine until she went back to school and she had to adjust in the opposite direction there.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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But either way, the math is the same for the surviving spouse who switches from married filing jointly for taxes to filing single, but with the same income as before.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Whenever the ship switches to diesel, any residual methane gas has to be flushed out of the engine pipework and vented into the atmosphere.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
These conductive fibers transformed the knitted structures into soft, stretchable electric switches that change electrical state when the fabric snaps from one configuration to another.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The firm specializes in copper cables used to connect AI servers to networking switches.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The TV switches from Marla in the newsroom to me walking across the infield.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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It is folded into a highly organized three-dimensional structure that helps control which genes are switched on or off.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The team also observed weaker interactions between genes and nearby regulatory elements that normally help control whether those genes are switched on or off.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Those who switched carriers cut their home-insurance premiums by an average of 6.6% over the last year, ICE noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
When control switched to Panama, the main change was to be a revenue provider for the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
He lay down and switched off his lamp.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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At a time when more people - especially younger age groups - are switching off from traditional media, he said influencers could act as a trusted source of information.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
One issue is that the VAR will start working on a check or review immediately, so a broadcaster switching to this feed might do so late and lose the context.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Workers across the economy have hit pause on switching jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
But many of them got raises by switching jobs, so those wage gains might not be doing much to dull frustration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
She thought about switching her gold studs for another pair, but decided to keep them in.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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