in plain English
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Rubin’s skills, former colleagues say, included an encyclopedic recall, the ability to explain his bets in plain English and a high threshold for risk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
Here’s the investment case in plain English: The science works.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
"Instead of juggling 10 links with search, you get a brief synthesis that you can edit and iterate in plain English," he says.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
Sometimes they’re confused enough to output obvious errors, as Apple researchers found when asking the models to solve math problems written in plain English.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2024
She could at least give them names in plain English, you would think.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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