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It then changed the instructions, according to the Associated Press, after local police issued a statement asking the public to capture and turn in American pilots alive to security agencies to “receive a precious prize.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The government is alive to these issues; its strategy document is peppered with words like "responsible" and "ethical" when it comes to the use of AI.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
A recent poll of corporate chief executives indicates that the business leaders are fully alive to negative trends that may yet be undiscerned by ordinary Americans.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
Had he still been alive to respond, though, Descartes would surely have replied to Newton that the problem was nobody could run fast enough to make the trick work.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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