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Nevertheless, Anthropic's tools are still in use at all of the government agencies that had been using them before the designation.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

She had been using them to treat her own eczema flare ups for most of her life.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Employees told firefighters that work was being performed on the roof earlier that day and that roofers had been using blowtorches to melt down material, according to reporting from KTLA.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

That said, Draper said that right before Season 1 of “Mormon Wives” dropped on Hulu in September 2024, she was given “proof” that Ngatikaura had been using an escort service in Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

For most of the twentieth century, medicine had been using the same primitive diagnostic criterion of sex formulated by Klebs way back in 1876.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides