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obiter dicta

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But that number is based on their own analyses and is not a figure that is coming from Anthropic, the sources said.

— Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
External control arms, comparative effectiveness studies against real-world standard of care, post-market expansions of indication and broader safety analyses all become more tractable.

— David Talby, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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Republicans control the White House and both branches of Congress, helping bolster their financial coffers against their Democratic counterparts, Martin noted in his remarks.

— Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2026
Markets have since calmed since that early peak, but prices are still significantly higher than before the conflict and rose again early Friday after the most recent remarks from Vance and others.

— Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2026

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Additionally, several legal and policy commentaries stress that the absence of direct consumer refunds reflects statutory and administrative constraints rather than a deliberate effort to deny households relief.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
The statement is the latest in a series of North Korean commentaries criticizing security cooperation among the United States, South Korea and Japan.

— Reuters, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2026

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Pioneer Girl was ultimately published in 2014 with annotations.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
The book presents 366 Mountain Goats songs, one for each day of the year including one for February 29, along with notes from Darnielle that range from honest accounts detailing his former struggles with drug addiction to more cryptic annotations.

— David Harris, SPIN, 6 July 2026

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Advertisement Last year, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix began working on an initiative that involved holding listening sessions with young people about their thoughts and feelings on various topics, including faith and family life.

— Chantelle Lee, Time, 14 Aug. 2026
But what frightened me most was not death alone, but the idea of dying before my writings reached the world—that my story would disappear with me, and that my feelings, my memories, my identity, and my human experience would be erased.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026

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