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It is not a puff piece in the vein of the newspaper’s profile of Tony Hovater.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Broadly speaking, palm-vein technology, which identifies people based on the unique pattern of their veins, is considered less susceptible to identity theft because vein patterns are difficult to copy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

In the same vein, the “Retirement Plan” short film, which was written and directed by John Kelly, uses simple line drawings of a character named Ray to show his progression through his older years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

In the same vein, Meta-backed Scale AI has gathered 100,000 hours of footage for robotics, while its Palo Alto-based competitor Micro1 employs 1,000 people across 60 countries to record household tasks.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Most of these are named, nearly always awkwardly, after places: Illinoian, Desmoinesian, Croixian, Kimmeridgian, and so on in like vein.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson