tailor
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“TDFs are more of a blanket approach to saving. In retirement, you want a personalized approach that can tailor your withdrawal strategy to your personal situation. A TDF can’t give you that.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
"Practical, or 'small', AI can help a farmer improve yields, a teacher tailor instruction, a health worker make better-informed decisions, or an entrepreneur reach new customers," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Made in collaboration with designer and tailor Alex Navarro and stylist Alexandra Mandelkorn and paid for by a mysterious benefactor Monáe has called “a fairy Halloween mother.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Fabric is imported from Thailand and Vietnam before a specialist tailor makes a sample for other employees to follow.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
My paternal grandfather was known as Jacob the blacksmith, and our neighbor was Lansman the tailor.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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Now, with AI, an attacker can design a worm that tailors the attack strategy to that device's specifics and these vulnerabilities can be different.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The dishwasher camera tailors washes for optimal energy efficiency and finally solves the mystery of what goes on inside there during the cycle.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
"Vietnam has no shortage of highly skilled tailors and hand embroiderers, but many of them are overlooked and do not receive the income they deserve," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
As a part of the pathway, Johnson tailors classroom support to help her students who want to further their careers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
I loved visiting him, his wife, and their four sons, all of whom were skilled tailors.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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In autism therapy, treatment hours are supposed to be tailored to each patient’s needs, but there is debate about how much is warranted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Some are tailored to murder mystery parties and Halloween events.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
With further development, the approach could eventually help health care professionals create diets tailored to individual patients.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Banks can then deploy tailored retention tactics such as personalized offers or proactive notifications.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
On Yahoo’s front page there are news stories, tailored to your postcode or whatever—God only knows how they know my postcode, but they do.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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Piracicaba spent decades tailoring its machinery industry to U.S. buyers; unlike agricultural commodities, machines built to American specifications can’t simply be redirected elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Rather than modernizing the home through an extensive renovation, however, the couple chose to preserve its midcentury character while tailoring other elements of the dwelling to their lifestyle.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Jesús Sosa Guerra, who recently opened a tailoring business inside the swap meet, said he supports the proposal but worries existing tenants could be displaced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Since those incidents occurred... there were no women in the markets," 26-year-old Ramin Ghafoori, a Herat-based businessman who runs a tailoring shop, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was both a secondary school and a teacher training college, but it also offered courses in more practical disciplines, such as carpentry, tailoring, and tinsmithing.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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