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“This seems like a would-be solution in search of a problem. Why are we here?” he asked a state attorney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
We generated approximately 45,000 to 55,000 tokens combing through the filing in search of insight into how Anthropic’s customers are putting its models to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The 57-year-old, once a senior advisor to Britain's prime minister David Cameron, moved stateside in search of the "California dream" before becoming a US citizen in 2021.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Citizenship and Immigration Services employees had been tasked with quickly reviewing the voter information of thousands of people in search of suspected noncitizen voters, and were given a quota of investigating 40 subjects per day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
But as soon as he heard mention of an arctic hare, he rushed up and down all the burrow tunnels in search of Twitch, whom he of course could not find.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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