worm
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We’ve all experienced the tendency of AI chatbots to tell us what we want to hear, but there are two other, more nuanced factors that help chatbots worm their way into human hearts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
He still needed the international worm to turn.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
"The screw worm can be detected easily, and it can be treated," he told journalists.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
This is a case of the early bird losing the worm.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Sometimes I find myself underground, following the path of a worm as it burrows through miles of subterranean soil.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Forestry and Land Scotland has also confirmed the presence of slow worms in the wider restoration area, although reptile population numbers are not known.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Without sufficient fiber, these worms enter a hibernation-like state and lose their ability to provide anti-inflammatory benefits.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Since then, her net worth has doubled, and while most of us can’t claim to know her on a personal level, from the outside it seems she has developed billionaire brain worms.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
On the remote east side of Mono Lake, he said the animals gobbled down grass, roots and all, depriving certain birds of the worms that live in the vegetation — their sustenance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Descartes exploded again, telling Beeckman he had learnt as much from him as he had learnt from ants and worms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
To her, it doesn’t matter if the scammer wormed into the email exchange from the town’s side or the company’s, because the town never spoke with her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In the final phases of the first half, Bristol's Kalaveti Ravouvou appeared to have wormed over for a score that Fiji could take some solace from at the break.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
A flaw had wormed its way into his technique at the start of those 1.3 seconds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
On this latest go-round, I was in therapy largely for approval: my therapist’s, yes, but also whatever prevailing cultural “wisdom” had wormed its way into my brain.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2024
A second later, Mina wormed her way through the wall of kids.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
Alarmingly, air pollution's effects are not confined to the breathing, as a growing body of research suggests that air pollution worming its way into the bodies of fetuses and unborn babies vis-a-vis their mothers' lungs.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2022
And you can just imagine what is already hitting the shops in England and will eventually be worming its way into America: King Charles III, coming soon to a mug near you.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
After all, it’s unclear whether there’s a technical solution to keeping A.I. from worming into student papers.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2022
We can recognize the ridiculousness of folk tales, by they have a way of worming into our national narrative infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
He marched off and the others followed behind, worming through the crowd and up to the light.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
