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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.
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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canonical
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Ciro de Luca/Pool via REUTERS Ciro de Luca / Pool via REUTERS Spanish media said the pope would speak later on Monday with victims at the Vatican embassy in Madrid, formally known as the apostolic nunciature.
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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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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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In an unexpected pairing, a 1979 Basquiat painting is displayed beside dresses created through a licensed collaboration between the Basquiat estate and fashion label Alice + Olivia.
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How that T-shirt and billions of other licensed products land on the shelf is actually a lot more complicated than that.
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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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According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), TLC is the second-biggest-selling female group behind The Chicks, with 23 million certified units.
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Farmworkers are at particular risk, which has led the EPA to require special training for certified applicators of paraquat.
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Sadeq, a 45-year-old whose clerical salt-and-pepper beard and calming mien manifested his upbringing as the son of Nabatieh’s imam and a scion of the city, spoke of the need for Lebanon’s Shiites to formulate a way beyond the conflicts that have marked their history.
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But because of an apparent clerical error, Lawson mistakenly maintained access to a confidential court database, the Comprehensive Case Information System, which is not public and only accessible by law enforcement, court and government officials.
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San Antonio has legitimate shooting at the center position thanks to Victor Wembanyama, which could allow Quaintance could survive as the lone non-shooter on the floor.
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Who benefits and who pays for AI progress is a legitimate debate.
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“Canonical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canonical. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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