as in amending
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the first printout quickly revealed that our computer program needed to be emended
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Disparate impact also lives under the Fair Housing Act, a separate law the Bureau cannot rewrite by amending Regulation B.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026 -
Michelle Ford, a soil scientist and wildlife biologist who owns EcoMaps, said Silverman over the past two months had addressed her concerns about wetlands protection by amending plans.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2026
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Screen time has many people asking whether their contact lenses can do double duty by filtering blue light along with correcting vision.—
Samantha Agate,
Sacbee.com,
13 June 2026
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Authorities initially identified him as Somali before later correcting his nationality to Sudanese.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
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To build with this mindset is to ensure that the design itself speaks, preventing the passage of time from quietly rewriting a deeply specific history into a generic tragedy.—
Rev. José Rodriguez,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
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The output is not only converted code but a modernization workflow that removes much of the manual inspection, rewriting and testing that large engineering teams once performed.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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“Emending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emending. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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