tool
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"If you wake up feeling anxious, it's a really great tool to help get you back into your body and out of your head," says Brittany.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Given our evolutionary relatedness to chimpanzees, we hope accumulative stone throwing can help us understand the emergence of complex communication and stone tool use over the course of human evolution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Former venture capitalist Bill Gurley responded to the post on X with a question for SpaceX’s Grok AI tool:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A lot will depend on how you use the tool, what questions you ask and whether you verify the sources used and double-check the findings.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
What looked like his mouth was actually a grinding tool that could crunch through the hardest rock.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
In return for their participation, researchers gave volunteers personalized feedback, including soil analysis results, evaluation tools and advice for managing soil more sustainably.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Over the next eight years, Guikema said he would use C$8m to research tools for better preparing for natural hazards, like storms and wildfires, at the University of Western Ontario.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
We can protect constitutional rights while also giving law enforcement modern tools to protect our communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kaiser Permanente, which is a fraction of the size of those two companies, ranked third at 9% because the AI tools weighted consumer-satisfaction data more heavily than enrollment size, 5W AI found.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
These examples of the latest in underwater discovery technology are not the only high-tech tools that will soon be available to all those seeking the evidence of the past from shipwrecks.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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
As the smoke piled in, Lake Arrowhead resident Doug Roath tooled around town on his bicycle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
Ukraine's factories have tooled up to make equipment to help keep the sappers safer.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
Hearts have tooled up for their first group-stage venture since 2004 with a recruitment drive that includes bringing Scotland striker Lawrence Shankland back from Belgium.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2022
The contents of her tooled leather purse with the rose designs had spilled all around her.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Earlier in the month Mr. Rogers released a video of himself tooling around Michigan in a cherry-red vintage Ford pickup truck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Source Foundry tackles the tightest bottleneck: tooling for semiconductor manufacturing, starting in lithography.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But he warns that if training becomes too narrow, apprentices can end up lacking a proper understanding of materials, methods, tooling, quality and process.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
It was November 1982, and I was tooling down Virginia State Route 460 in my green 1972 Volkswagen at four A.M.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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