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Early last week, President Trump and tech executives from Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and others signed a voluntary accord to “self-police” AI development.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

US media has been widely reporting it as the "voluntary intoxication loophole".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Malaysia says about 5,000 Myanmar nationals have agreed to "voluntary" return, but authorities have not commented on the ethnicities of those who have returned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

In September, the group raised output by about 188,000 barrels a day, completing the phased unwinding of 1.65 million barrels a day in voluntary supply cuts agreed in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

This was entirely voluntary; there being no other reason for it.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

Her works for that134 instrument include two grand voluntaries, a half-dozen excellent pedal fugues, eight slow movements, and many other pieces.

From Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson

The voluntaries she played that day were Dead Marches, and the vicar preached a conscience-shattering sermon upon the text "Lord, who is it?"

From The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth

"The organist played as opening voluntaries the 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' Barnaby's 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' and Barnaby's 'Bridal March.'"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

With these voluntaries Alexius opened communications, and was by their aid enabled to get accurate information of all that went on among the Latins.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne