Familiarly known under the brand names Wegovy and Zepbound, Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are a class of medication used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity by mimicking hormones produced in the gut to suppress a person’s appetite and regulate blood sugar.
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Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
26 Aug. 2025
While regular folks would match their eye shadow to a color in their dress or top, picking up a shade of bronze, green, or purple and mimicking that in their makeup palette, Roan matched her stage makeup almost exactly to her dress.
One of Dubin’s most striking insights is that blind spots often masquerade as strengths.
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Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Mathematicians have unraveled a key conjecture about knot theory
Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion.
An avenue that is subject to great debate is to use regulatory powers and enact laws that clearly identify what AI makers are supposed to do.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Mrvan noted the federal infrastructure spending package enacted during the Biden administration included improving internet reliability in rural areas.
And then third, Nixon, who had lost to Kennedy in the 1960 election, by the early 1970s, as president, was not about to ape and imitate the man who had bested him.
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Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Shooter aped Marvel Comics’ writing style, bringing a measure of 1960s cool to the more uptight comics that National put out.
Dennis is often seen playing it as a way of acting out his manipulative tendencies toward actual human beings, and Dennis and Roman also go to a Hollywood party as Sims.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
Despite their language barrier, Costner did his best to talk to the tribe about buffalo, acting out how the animal would behave.
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