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There was no news, no public chit-chat, nothing that would give rise to such a big move, but there it was.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
Confidence in the near-term prospects may be brittle—and at the mercy of developments in the Middle East —but several bullish signs have emerged that should give rise to longer-term optimism.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
But this still did not give rise to anything resembling the prisoner-of-war camps that today seem an inseparable part of war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The new framework shows that these tiny motions can give rise to real electrical effects.
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
The surprising number of consecutive runs of heads or tails of various lengths give rise to further counter-intuitive notions.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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