tool
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My view: Behavioral economics is no panacea, but it can be an extremely useful tool for individuals and for systems as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Tehran "wants to maintain Hezbollah as a long-term deterrent tool and does not want to use it immediately to open a new front," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Warsh is looking to get consumer prices under control, and the best tool the Fed currently has is raising interest rates.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Even so, physicists have continued to debate whether complex numbers are truly a fundamental part of nature or simply a convenient mathematical tool.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
And she tucked it into a pocket of her tool belt for safekeeping.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
China is the first major jurisdiction to introduce specific rules targeting immersive AI tools that simulate romantic or familial bonds.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
These tools estimate biological age by measuring DNA methylation, a pattern of chemical tags that influences how genes are switched on or off without changing the DNA sequence itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Developments over the past century have weakened the force of these legislative tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We want young people to enjoy the benefits of technology while having the tools to make the online world a place where they can thrive."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“No, they are not. They are tools, nothing more.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Even if Congress voted the funds tomorrow for 10,000 new interceptors, the metal and the gas would still have to be found, the workforce trained, and the production lines tooled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
He tooled around cheerfully in a used car given to him by an old friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025
Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
The show featured the comical misadventures of a quartet that tooled around Los Angeles in a tricked-out Pontiac GTO called the MonkeeMobile and, when they weren’t chasing girls, pursued music stardom.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
A long leather scabbard is expertly tooled with the initials R. F.: the sheath for the machete Ronald Franz gave McCandless when he left Salton City.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Yet the only reason he’s out here racking up steps by the hundreds on a recent morning is because he was tooling around in his sculpture studio before I arrived.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
He and his 25-person team built extensive internal tooling to see if the Chinese open-source model could handle Lindy’s tasks of managing inboxes and calendars, drafting emails, and transcribing meetings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Enterprise products are currently more likely to opt in to other models with clear controls, compliance tooling, auditability, data-governance guarantees and workflow integrations.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
In February, global consultancy Accenture reportedly told staff, external that promotions to top roles would require "regular adoption of AI tooling" and it would be tracking their usage of the AI platform it has developed.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
All were lovingly ornamented with Spanish leather in scarlet, and with gold tooling.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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