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Assuming the roster gets back to full health, the givens ahead of Pelle in the rotation would be Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo, Kel’el Ware, Andrew Wiggins and, perhaps, Davion Mitchell.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025 -
There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2024
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Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2025
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While the 1980s movie Weird Science had a similar premise (two teens built the woman of their dreams/fantasies using a computer), my experiment wasn’t about fantasy fulfillment.—
Cathy Hackl,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The presumption in this case is that the firm is delivering a message its clients want to see permeate.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Its presumptions about free speech match those of our time, but not those of their own.—
Fara Dabhoiwala,
Harpers Magazine,
4 June 2025
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Ultimately, the old dictum still stands – Garbage in, garbage out.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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At a Vanity Fair party, Diddy admonished Nash because Cassie’s hair was not in keeping with his dictum.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
28 May 2025
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Also called Euclid’s fifth postulate, this rule tells us the following: Suppose you’re given a line.—
Rachel Crowell,
Scientific American,
6 Dec. 2023
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In the 1800s, Bertrand’s postulate showed that for any n>3, there is always a prime number between n and 2n.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Nov. 2023
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The substantive parts of the state's Anti-SLAPP laws would survive and be utilized under the Erie doctrine.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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Clarkson said the institute also promoted religious doctrines that were considered unusual at the time of its founding, in 1970.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
21 June 2025
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Those pages are a garbled mess, and Thomas spends much of them starting from the assumption that his conclusions are true.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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The capitalist assumption that individuals should earn their livelihood through labor doesn't work anymore when machines outperform humans at both speed and cost.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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Gödel showed that any system of axioms in mathematics permits the formulation of statements that can’t be shown to be true or false.—
Philip Ball,
Wired News,
8 June 2025
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Zermelo developed nine simple axioms, that is, unproven basic assumptions, on which everything is based in math.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
9 May 2025
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