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The project has created thousand of jobs and intends to one day shuttle travelers to and from Southern and Northern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
That means the robot can run tens of thousand of simulations while it is moving around.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I can’t believe these people are going to pay me a couple thousand dollars per episode to go fishing,” Walters remembered thinking.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
A petition signed by two thousand people sent last month to Palau's congress sought assurances from Washington that the population would be safe should war reach their shores.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The final number is estimated at more than two hundred thousand.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
That changed in early 2022, when California’s major insurers — State Farm, Allstate, Farmers and others — simultaneously began to shed thousands of policies because of their exposure to wildfire risk and other hazards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
In February, the swindlers attacked Polymarket, linking stolen debit cards to thousands of new accounts, the payment processor Checkout.com told Polymarket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Hanna, like many thousands of young Eritreans fleeing conscription and in search of better opportunities, left the country - travelling secretively over the border without a passport.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
This technique examines the portions of DNA that contain instructions for making proteins, allowing scientists to search across thousands of genes for unusual variants shared by affected individuals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
We’re now in free fall, thousands of feet in the air.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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