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Adverb
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The ball struck Judge, who was either blinded by the sun or wasn’t looking, near his right eye, knocking his sunglasses off his face.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
6 July 2025 -
Coursera’s public performance hasn’t been spectacular, either.—
Brit Morse,
Fortune,
6 July 2025
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These behaviors are not explicitly programmed but instead emerge as a result of the model’s interaction with the reinforcement learning environment.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 July 2025
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While most houses of this era were a chaotic collection of rooms and meandering hallways, the Robie House (and most of Wright’s homes) instead has an open floor plan—a revolutionary design choice at the time.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
7 July 2025
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Verdier’s most notable innovation is the use of a canting keel as the support for one of the foils, with the other two contact points being a foil on the rudder and, alternately, the two lateral foils.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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Speaking at the Capitol Jess alternately texted on her cellphone and scanned a swarm of protesters who gathered across the Wisconsin State Capitol’s lawn.—
Bennet Goldstein,
jsonline.com,
4 July 2025
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“Optionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/optionally. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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