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The bulk of those losses occurred after Feb. 5, when Robin Washington — a longtime Salesforce board member and Gilead’s former CFO — was announced as the replacement for veteran finance chief Amy Weaver, who disclosed plans to depart last year but stayed on until the role was filled.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025 -
Whatever is left of the pavlova gets ground into a fine powder and used as a creative replacement for powdered sugar.—
Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2025
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More than 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced from those areas, according to the United Nations and Israel's defense minister — the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2025
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The Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, in what experts say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.—
Isabel Kershner,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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No transfer, assignment, or substitution of a prize is permitted, except Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize (or prize component) for an item of equal or greater value at Sponsor’s sole discretion.—
TIME for Kids,
TIME,
21 Feb. 2025
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Swap or substitution powers could be more important.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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But the researchers found that under the right conditions, the gravitational waves triggered by the quantum foam can sometimes generate exactly the right kind of deformations in space.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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Rheology is a branch of physics that deals with the deformation and fluidity of matter.—
Leath Tonino,
Outside Online,
13 Jan. 2025
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The suit cites the recent Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action and highlights civil rights cases in its argument, a new tactic many scholars have called a gross distortion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.—
Bernhard Warner,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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However, activists concerned with animal rights, the environment, the rights of farmers, and human health are already working to ease the distortions of the subsidy system and align government subsidies with recommendations as to what constitutes a healthy, sustainable diet.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
18 Nov. 2024
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In any case, whether by accident or by design, the transmutation of a vulgar old Jewface number into a civic hymn is hard to resist as metaphor—an emblem of minstrelsy’s fugitive movement through American life.—
Jody Rosen,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2023
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Each era-ending crisis created a credible kind of drama: In real life, revolutions, reformations, migration, invasion, disasters, and so much else can reshape societies in fundamental ways.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
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The dissolution and subsequent reformation of safety teams at OpenAI demonstrates the ongoing debate about how best to approach AI safety governance.—
Sol Rashidi,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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Taiwan welcomed the revision as a sign of U.S. support.—
Christian Shepherd The Washington Post,
arkansasonline.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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In recent years, tech policy advocates in the United States have suggested many ways to check this power, from stronger antitrust rules, to Section 230 revisions, to mandating algorithmic transparency from social media platforms and AI developers.—
Lawrence Norden,
TIME,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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