as in to solve (for)
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And all of this while CEOs and their boards are trying to figure out the answers to the questions around investing in AI and other technologies—for example, the who, what, where, how, why and how much.—
Jim DeLoach,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025 -
While dozens of officers stood in the hallway trying to figure out what to do, students inside the classroom called 911 on cellphones, begging for help, and desperate parents who had gathered outside the building pleaded with officers to go in.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Section 179 has long allowed business owners to deduct the cost of qualifying property in the year it’s placed in service, but with some limits.—
David Rae,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Specifically, the new law allows those who receive tips to deduct up to $25,000 in taxable income.—
Chris Talgo,
Boston Herald,
4 Aug. 2025
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There has been much debate on whether AI’s scaling laws would continue to hold, and whether AI systems would continue to achieve higher performance as the size of the training data, model parameters, or computational resources increase.—
Eliza Strickland,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 Aug. 2025
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If India scales back imports of Russian oil, Moscow could still gain revenue if crude prices spike.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Thermal batteries tend to have very long lifespans—measured in decades rather than years.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Growth is no longer measured by financial factors alone.—
Time,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
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