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Recent Examples of canonical
Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, the canonical speech production and comprehension regions, appear to remain connected and active during sleep.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
To then spit out convincing, canonical answers about every fact ever.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
From 2009 to 2013, the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite mapped those patterns with extraordinary precision, producing what remains a canonical dataset for analyzing the CMB.
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Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
Yet there is nothing eternal or canonical or irreversible about this system.
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Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
To then spit out convincing, canonical answers about every fact ever.
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Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
From 2009 to 2013, the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite mapped those patterns with extraordinary precision, producing what remains a canonical dataset for analyzing the CMB.
—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
Yet there is nothing eternal or canonical or irreversible about this system.
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Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canonical
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On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II set out from Rome on an apostolic journey, as papal trips away from the Vatican are called.
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The leader of the Roman Catholic Church directed his remarks to university students at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, during an 11-day apostolic journey in Africa.
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Plot synopsis House of the Dragon attempts to condense and dramatize the conflicting accounts presented in Fire & Blood—stitched together from testimonies and court chronicles—into a single authoritative narrative.
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They can be resolved through the application of authoritative expertise and through the organization’s current structures, procedures, and ways of doing things.
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The story unfolds amid the frenzy surrounding an impending papal visit.
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Not city officials or the Georgia Department of Transportation, but a mixture of FIFA, broadcasters and maybe the papal conclave.
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Swift recently paid tribute to the Hollywood icon with an entire song on The Life of a Showgirl and licensed imagery and other intellectual property from Elizabeth Taylor's estate for the music video.
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Pet owners can make appointments online, and all procedures will be performed by a licensed veterinarian, according to a press release.
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After returning to the United States, Novakovic attended an Episcopal boarding school in San Antonio, Texas.
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On New Year’s Eve in 1996, Christou followed Deadbeat with a club at a former Episcopal church that was built in 1865.
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For on-premise, large traditional hardware vendors offer turnkey solutions, with pre-certified GPU configurations, integrated networking, storage and reference architectures.
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Not all blondes are dumb, don’t judge a book by its cover, yada yada yada, lo and behold, Reese Witherspoon is a certified movie star.
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Support for the clerical leadership is paper thin, analysts say, and the new Supreme Leader, Khamenei's son Mojtaba Khamenei, has not been seen in any new image since being wounded in the strike that killed his father.
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Until then, the new law provides for the superintendent to have several deputies and a skeleton clerical staff.
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Both men argue Los Angeles should consider creating a dedicated anti-squatter task force to help law enforcement distinguish legitimate tenant disputes from cases involving criminal conduct.
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Schlittler, meanwhile, has a legitimate case to start for the American League, which will be managed by rival Blue Jays skipper John Schneider.
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“Canonical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canonical. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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