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China’s universities turned out students specializing in computer vision, a branch of computer science that tries to teach machines to see as humans do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't exist before the river level dropped a few months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Nearly the entire statistical signal was coming from a single branch of the insect family tree.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
It has signed a deal with the Japanese restaurant group, Sunpark, to open a Tokyo branch by the end of this year and then expand in the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But she made it across without faltering -until the final rock, when she had to leap for the bank, and ended up grabbing a willow branch to haul herself up.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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They should carefully safeguard their legitimacy so they may adjudicate authoritatively when true collisions between the branches arise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"But it endures anyway as a tradition that forges character, one that sets us apart from other branches of the armed forces."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The British digital bank was set up in 2015 as a "new kind of bank" that ditched physical bank branches for a mobile-first app.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
In emerging quantum technologies, questions like this bring together two branches of physics that were developed for very different purposes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Air whizzed across Jonathan as the tree trunk dropped past, and branches brushed his shoulder, scratching his arms.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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He branched into insurance, spotting how annuity savers’ years of steady premiums could be a good match for multigenerational investments in sports, fast food and technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
EssilorLuxottica has also branched into hearing correction, with its Nuance Audio integrating hearing aids into eyeglasses frames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I’ll always prefer Mom’s barbecued chicken, fried chicken and French fries, but I have branched out, trying an array of new, relatively tamer foods, ranging from albacore tuna to zucchini.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
The analysis also revealed how different blood cell types may have branched off over time.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
The land surrounding it was rockier than any other place we knew, and the path to it branched off underneath a massive fallen oak that looked somewhat like a mermaid.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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Smart, entertaining and surprising, they offer reassurance that adventurous playwriting is not only alive and well but branching out into uncharted territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Some auto-industry manufacturers have expressed concerns about branching into weapons-related defense work, worried about the cost and complexity of military contracting and potential pushback from investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
The Ledi Geraru findings add to a growing picture of early human evolution as a crowded, branching story.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
After a short stint in his brother's plastics business, he launched the flagship family conglomerate that bears his name in 1988 by branching out into the export trade.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
I heard his heavy boots pounding behind me as I turned into a second alley branching off from the first.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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