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obiter dicta

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To date, most analyses have compared patients’ genomes against a standard DNA sequence constructed from a limited number of people.

— Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
Nuclear license changes hands Along with the NRC license, NANO Nuclear will acquire patented technology, engineering and safety analyses, regulatory and permitting documents, equipment, and historical project development records.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

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Although these remarks sound like typical things a wife would say about her husband, political commentator David Pakman remains skeptical.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 30 Sep. 2026
Trump is scheduled to travel to Texas later this week to deliver economic remarks at a truck manufacturing company -- a visit that comes five weeks before Election Day and as Texas is home to many key races.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of remarks

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Postmortem commentaries on the campaign agreed that many factors were at play in Sinclair’s loss — FDR had kept his distance and progressive candidate Raymond Haight siphoned off votes from Sinclair — but Hollywood proudly took credit.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
Two years ago, Shen Anyu, a voice actor who earns a living from narrating news commentaries and other short programs, began noticing an alarming number of videos on social-media platforms that seemed to feature his voice without his permission.

— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of commentaries

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His commentary became an important part of the textual tradition, and his annotations are included in many modern editions of the work.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
This novel comes to readers in the form of a poem—one written by a fictional poet and accompanied by annotations from the poet’s (also fictional) colleague.

— Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of annotations

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My students are simultaneously cerebral readers and emotional ones, and those feelings can be at odds with each other, sometimes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
When prompted about what may happen in the future as more stations adopt AI hosts, DJ Coyotec generated an answer that sounded like empathy even though the bot has no feelings or control of what will happen in the future.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

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