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Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” put a name to what people had been feeling: tech companies extracting value from data about our lives and reshaping our behavior for profit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

“I think I’m just exhausted in every avenue of my life and in recent months had been feeling a little bit of a shift in the way you talk to me,” Swift said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

“I had been feeling pretty dejected,” he says.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2026

Smith, who has more than 10,000 runs, had been feeling unwell in the lead-up but was initially named in the starting side.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

He had been feeling me out, I realized, trying to grasp exactly what I was doing there.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz