at it
idiom
: doing some activity
I didn't expect her to have started working yet, but she was already (hard) at it when I arrived.
My neighbors are always arguing, and they were at it again last night.
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But here’s another way of looking at it: A) The Red Sox haven’t been to the postseason since 2021, and B) baseball in October, even early October, can be really, really exciting.
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Today’s models are much better at it, which allows modern RAG-style systems to produce better results with less scaffolding.
—ArsTechnica, 7 July 2025
Attempting to replace these institutional frameworks represents a decades-long project with vanishingly small chances of success no matter how much money is thrown at it.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Later, Spike and Isla will pass the Angel of the North and remark on how the sight of the statue connects everyone who looks at it, whether in the distant past or hundreds of years into the future.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 July 2025
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Today’s models are much better at it, which allows modern RAG-style systems to produce better results with less scaffolding.
—ArsTechnica, 7 July 2025
Attempting to replace these institutional frameworks represents a decades-long project with vanishingly small chances of success no matter how much money is thrown at it.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Later, Spike and Isla will pass the Angel of the North and remark on how the sight of the statue connects everyone who looks at it, whether in the distant past or hundreds of years into the future.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 July 2025
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“At it.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20it. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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