queries
Americannoun
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Only 18 were flagged because the agent “did not have a sufficient factual basis to believe that the queries were reasonably likely to retrieve foreign intelligence information.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Between April 2024 and April 2025, the Justice Department National Security Division flagged 127 of 9,089 U.S. person queries as noncompliant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Training AI models requires huge amounts of computing power -- much more than for processing generative AI queries, which is known as inference.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
All of these queries have merit, and the only way to begin answering them is to push through the discomfort that comes with having these conversations at all.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
With time, the queries about our adopted—and decidedly eccentric— little boy had mercifully ceased, and, considering how tactless Afghan queries can be sometimes, that was a considerable relief.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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