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Builders of early computers weren’t trying to make machines that could talk, but their work was deeply indebted to that of acoustics engineers like Homer Dudley.
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Advertisement How indebted can a novelist be to the work of other people?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
His family emigrated after an ambitious socialist program left the country poorer and heavily indebted.
—Bygreg McKenna, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
The election was a referendum on Wickremesinghe, who led the heavily indebted nation’s fragile economic recovery from an economic meltdown but the austerity measures that were key to this recovery angered voters.
—Reuters, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Advertisement How indebted can a novelist be to the work of other people?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
His family emigrated after an ambitious socialist program left the country poorer and heavily indebted.
—Bygreg McKenna, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
The election was a referendum on Wickremesinghe, who led the heavily indebted nation’s fragile economic recovery from an economic meltdown but the austerity measures that were key to this recovery angered voters.
—Reuters, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
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“Indebted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indebted. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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