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as in upstarts
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Going public would put SpaceX in the company of older, traditional aerospace heavyweights, such as Boeing and Northrop Grumman, and industry upstarts, such as Rocket Lab and Firefly Aerospace.—
Ramin Skibba,
Scientific American,
26 Dec. 2025 -
In contrast, some upstarts show higher satisfaction scores than major entries despite their minimal market share.—
Ethan Stone,
USA Today,
11 Dec. 2025
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The authors were diligent students, high achievers.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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In fact, according to a new JPMorgan survey of more than 100 billionaires, reading ranks as the top habit that elite achievers have in common.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
4 Jan. 2026
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Certainly there’s a long and distinguished tradition of associating Jewish arrivistes with entrepreneurialism, avarice, and clannishness.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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Energy, Robbins proffered, was a — perhaps the — essential trait of all the world’s doers, some of whom would take the same stage that very day or the next.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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Major biotech companies that churn out made-to-order DNA for scientists have protections in place to keep dangerous biological material out of the hands of would-be evil-doers.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
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