watershed
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Dr Pushmeet Kohli, who leads DeepMind's science work, told me that AlphaFold could be seen as a "watershed moment".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
But there is a difference between a watershed event and simply a selloff caused by a company that reminded us this isn’t a kids’ soccer game where every company gets a trophy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
The highlight of AlphaGo’s victory was a move so counterintuitive and terrifyingly creative that Move 37 became a watershed moment in AI history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
"That means the watershed, the grid and the communities around our facilities must be better off for our being here."
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Thereafter, except for a narrow band sprayed in 1956, the whole upper watershed of this branch was excluded from the spraying program.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Addressing common criticisms, he pledged to keep electricity prices low by building its own energy-generating infrastructure wherever Meta invests and to restore more water than it uses in the watersheds it operates by 2030.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
When exploring the watersheds east of Cuzco, Peru, he writes, Miller was “overawed by the tropical forest canopy stretching to infinity before him.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“It’s kind of a startlingly bad picture where virtually all major western watersheds are doing very poorly,” Swain said in a livestreamed discussion of the western snow outlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
Of these, 16 formed interconnected watersheds covering at least 100,000 square kilometers.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
Such places, the watersheds of the great coniferous forests of spruce and balsam, of hemlock and pine, provide the kind of spawning grounds that salmon must have in order to survive.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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