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referenced

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past tense of reference

as in documented

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On July 30, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 documented a single operator running a largely autonomous attack campaign against dozens of targets, with AI agents handling reconnaissance and exploitation work that once required a team.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Her arrest was documented in the pilot episode of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and the video of the incident resurfaced earlier this year.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2026

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Only the lettuce contained in the recall or specified by the FDA has been deemed unsafe for consumption, meaning other brands of lettuce from other sources should be safe to eat.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026
The sources and police have not specified a possible motive for the killing.

— Joe Brandt, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

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That allows manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers developing vehicles on NVIDIA’s architecture to evaluate a lidar sensor already validated for the platform instead of spending additional engineering time proving compatibility.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
The goal is to ensure first impressions are validated by concrete evidence, not just gut feelings.

— Andy Molinsky, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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The series consists of seven books written and illustrated by the Reys from 1941 to 1966, as well as later additions, not by the Reys, commissioned by the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the 1990s.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026
Democrats are facing a dilemma and Michigan’s Senate primary perfectly illustrated it.

— Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026

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