locus classicus

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Noun
  • There have also been several studies examining the effects of social interdependence and similar social contexts on children's ability to delay gratification, using variations of the marshmallow test paradigm.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
  • The move signaled Washington’s retreat from globalization and dealt a blow to the globalist paradigm.
    Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • There was not a single instance of service disruption.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • Despite Halle giving the court several instances of violence and providing post-assault photos, her victimhood is being denied by many.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • For example, staff shortages at the National Weather Service have resulted in reduced or halted daily weather balloon launches, changed schedules for some forecast advisories and fewer social media posts about weather conditions.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • While Lindblad has offered other river cruises in the past—on the Nile, for example—the new Europe trips will be the first of their kind for the nearly 60-year-old company, CEO Natalya Leahy told Travel + Leisure.
    Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The scrappy, gender-bending show appeals to a unique cross section of theater kids and history buffs, with many audience members returning with their fathers.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • The audience, representing a cross section of Americans, burst out laughing.
    Chris Lamb, The Conversation, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • These European footprints are not as old as the ones from Australia, but are still older than previous specimens.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
  • The architecture of the retina remained completely intact across multiple specimens.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • There were not enough handwriting samples of John and Frank to make a comparison, and the FBI concluded the card was probably a hoax inspired by the intense and worldwide news coverage.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
  • Holmes told investors her company Theranos had created a new blood sample analyzer that would only require one drop to test for various diseases.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • When the Wires Go Dead: Why Spain’s Train Crisis May Spark a Hydrogen Future In the middle of the day on 28 April 2025, Spain lived a modern replay of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.
    Marianne Lehnis, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • The 1985 classic spent two weeks at No. 1 during its original run and remains one of five chart-toppers for the band.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Real Ice hopes to test a prototype this year, says co-CEO Andrea Ceccolini, an Italian computer scientist and investor who joined the company in 2022.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • Google’s Project Mariner technology, which the company announced as a research prototype last year, will be able to accomplish certain tasks on a person’s behalf and answer questions that usually require multiple steps, the company claims.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
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“Locus classicus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locus%20classicus. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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