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co-occurrences

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Sign up for our weekly newsletter Proof Positive How does a coherent structure emerge from many small random occurrences?

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
There’s a fragmented culture where all corners of the entertainment world are struggling to produce new versions of the sort of ubiquitous, four-quadrant successes that consumers recall as regular occurrences in earlier decades.

— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026

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In our conspiratorial age, the idea that there are fine, obscure relationships between seemingly disparate things is a thought seductive on the surface but oftentimes shallow underneath.

— Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
While her home didn't suffer any damage, the loss of electricity was making things difficult, Haro said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026

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In both approaches, models rely on approximations to fill data gaps, whether from regions with sparse weather stations or complex atmospheric phenomena that scientists are still working to understand.

— Justine Calma, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026
Taken together, these phenomena should raise concerns over just how far the mania will go.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of phenomena

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But analysts say the incidents are unlikely to bring remaining shipping activity through the Strait to a halt, even as major container lines largely stay away.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
The message did not identify specific incidents or detail any investigations or actions in response to the concerns.

— CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of incidents

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Was 2025 the fluke of flukes or a harbinger of something worse to come for Andy Reid and friends?

— 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.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of flukes

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The surveillance tool scans thousands of pages of school board documents every 12 hours and flags anything controversial—from Title IX issues to curriculum changes.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026
In the biography, Field’s wife, Adelaide Percheron, was mentioned in only a few pages.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026

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