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Brookings

American  
[brook-ingz] / ˈbrʊk ɪŋz /

noun

  1. Robert Somers 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.

  2. a city in E South Dakota.


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Wendy Edelberg, an economist at the Brookings Institution, thinks there was a net outflow of immigrants from the U.S. in 2025 that is continuing this year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Wendy Edelberg, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told AFP that all the signs pointed to a hold.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Research published in September by the Brookings Institution also found this connection, projecting that if the pattern held in the general election, tens of thousands of mail-in ballots could be rejected.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Yet, recent research, external from Brookings Institution, a non-partisan policy research group, found that a new data centre creates between 100 and 200 local jobs, which is "fewer than industry advocates claim".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Brookings read the news of the explosion, then looked at his chief chemist, his face turning gray.

From The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

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