what gives
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“I hope I do a good job with the bank because that’s what gives boards the courage to appoint another woman to a big job,” she said at the University of Minnesota earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Scientists have long debated what gives superluminous supernovae their extraordinary brightness.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
To be sure, a big order is good news, so what gives?
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
But this rambling structure is also what gives “Marc by Sofia” its edge.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
The naming of those tools—the figures and tropes—is what gives rhetoric its sometimes opaque-seeming technical vocabulary.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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