In This Article There are occasions that call for heirloom china and sparkling crystal, but a truly gracious host knows that the most enjoyable gatherings aren’t necessarily the ones with the finest things, but rather, a relaxed environment.
But doing so means obstructing the inner part of the corona, which harbors the most important processes that underpin the puzzling phenomena of the sun’s upper atmosphere.
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IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Nov. 2026
But the distinction between physical and mental phenomena becomes murky in disembodied entities like language models.
Was 2025 the fluke of flukes or a harbinger of something worse to come for Andy Reid and friends?
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Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
14 Sep. 2026
Their odds of winning the World Series – a famously finicky task prone to small sample size flukes – were over 25%, one-in-four for one of baseball’s 30 teams.
Voters at Brandywine Elementary School waited in line Tuesday morning until a truck brought more ballots, and one voter says some ballot pages were blank.
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Ida Domingo,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Nov. 2026
For example, while leafing through tables of logarithms, astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed that the pages for values starting with the digit 1 were significantly more worn than the others.
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