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Instead, let’s really talk about, “It’s what I was doing, and sometimes it’s what I still do out of habit, but it’s not inherent to who I am as a mammal.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026
"Nobody's required to do it, but they do out of love for their culture, and that was really attractive to me."
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
“Some people might find it surprising that these kinds of linguistic generalization tasks are really hard for systems like GPT-4 to do out of the box,” Solar-Lezama says.
From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023
The embassy has been in lockdown for several weeks with sporadic protests around it raising pressure on Paris to bring back its envoy, something that Macron had stoically refused to do out of principle.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023
Some things, I guess, we do out of tradition, out of ritual, out of need.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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