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referencing

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present participle of reference

as in documenting

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This could look like investing in and promoting internal subject-matter experts, documenting best practices, creating subject-matter Centers of Excellence and embedding that expertise directly into workflows.

— Srinivas Velamoor, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
High schoolers and middle schoolers across the country are sharing social media posts documenting how these internet memes have manifested in their classrooms – and sometimes, how their teachers are using them to guide class discussions.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

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Despite warnings of the potential for humans to lose their grip on the technology, some suspect the worst-case scenarios described by the AI companies themselves have more to do with validating the importance of their work than reality.

— Barbara Ortutay, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Our study linked above found that deadlines and delivery pressure are the top barriers to validating AI output.

— Nacho De Marco, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of validating

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All 50 states are invited to submit a single response, specifying their contributions such as land, infrastructure, funding, and more.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Developers may move further from a system’s underlying code toward writing prompts, specifying outcomes and reviewing what AI fills in.

— Atul Sabharwal, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of specifying

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Prosecutors assembled thousands of pages of text messages and emails, obtained bank and flight records, gathered corroborating witnesses, and collected video footage of freak-offs and the damning tape of Combs attacking Ventura.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
Any association with a person, Leonardo says, requires additional investigative work and corroborating information under applicable legal requirements and agency procedures.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of corroborating

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Schlager has contributed 18 of those recoveries, with his midfield partner James McAtee having made 19, illustrating their nascent partnership.

— Paul Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
The moonphase displayed is not created by partially obscuring an image of the Moon, but by the continuous movement of the two, illustrating the time elapsed between one new moon and the next full moon.

— Carol Besler, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2026

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