as in protests
formal
the condition of not having or doing something that is officially required
The town has increased the fine for noncompliance to $100.
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Noun
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Since 2017, millions of Iranians have participated in protests; tens of thousands have been killed.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026 -
The 2025 protests against corruption and poor governance were triggered by a social media ban before snowballing into a popular revolt against the government.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Leaders of the Upper Basin states also are raising objections, saying the Interior Department’s current options rely on flawed assumptions, fail to impose large enough cuts on the Lower Basin and go beyond the federal government’s authority.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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Large language models are extraordinarily good at inferring context clues—in this case, the user’s name, professional background, and likely objections—and tailoring output accordingly.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
3 Mar. 2026
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Thornton’s latest work has the potential to reach more audiences precisely because of the Huckleberry Finn-like spirit of its Kid and Max saga, giving more folks the opportunity to learn about colonialist histories and indigenous resistances in the lands down under.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
20 Feb. 2026
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Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 June 2025
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