tortoise
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So perhaps IBM is the tortoise in this race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
That motto, and the company’s approach, has led some to call Blue Origin the tortoise to SpaceX’s hare.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Forbes calls that “the tortoise and hare approach.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
O'Farrell shows me where she writes, taking me down her garden, "my commute to work," past a treehouse and a run for the rescue tortoise, to her glass-framed studio.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
“We wouldn’t have to do anything with the tortoise if you hadn’t pretended we were the people the Sea King had called!”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
It might be those ploughshare tortoises, 75 of which were stolen from a successful Madagascar breeding facility in 1996, rendering them virtually extinct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Famous examples include the giant tortoises of the Galapagos and the extinct Dodo of Mauritius.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
Fish and Wildlife Service protocols to identify tortoises and instead used less rigorous procedures, said Evan Levy, attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Galapagos tortoises are trained to step onto scales, for example, the lions and tigers to present their tails so blood tests and skin samples can be taken.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Just as an infinite tower of tortoises supporting the flat earth is such a picture, so is the theory of superstrings.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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