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There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2024 -
About the only givens seemingly would be Bam Adebayo making first-team All-Defense for the first time, after second-team such nods the past four seasons, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. making first-team All-Rookie.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Apr. 2024
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Atilano launched her business on a simple premise— farmers are the experts.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Bears Chairman reacted as if the mere premise of the question was absurd.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Its hero, Rusty Sabich, was a prosecuting attorney entitled to the presumption of innocence, as the law requires, when an ambitious rival puts him on trial for the murder of a colleague.—
Lisa Henricksson,
airmail.news,
11 Jan. 2025
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So why not own your investigation or say the team preferred to stand by a presumption of innocence instead of hiding behind the league?—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
29 Nov. 2024
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Instead, Martel echoes the great aesthete himself, Oscar Wilde, in his serene dictum that all art is perfectly useless.—
Donna Tartt,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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But due to card production and printing schedules, rookie cards were issued for months outside the scope of this dictum.—
Michael Salfino,
The Athletic,
19 Aug. 2024
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Also called Euclid’s fifth postulate, this rule tells us the following: Suppose you’re given a line.—
Rachel Crowell,
Scientific American,
6 Dec. 2023
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In the 1800s, Bertrand’s postulate showed that for any n>3, there is always a prime number between n and 2n.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Nov. 2023
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Courts in at least five states – Montana, New York, Washington, Vermont and Oregon – have rejected the open fields doctrine, finding it’s not supported by their state constitutions.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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OpenAI argued that the fair use doctrine protects them.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2025
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Somehow, the assumptions of this defense attorney have been treated with credence over the word of a veteran assistant state’s attorney dedicated to public service.—
Paul Vallas,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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Use data to challenge assumptions, validate decisions and guide strategy.—
Mark Kane,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The hope of deriving one set of rules, or axioms, to govern all mathematical truths was fatally undermined.—
Theodore McDarrah,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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The famous wrestler Sting, in describing his character change in 1996 from a clear babyface to a darker, enigmatic character, offered the perfect axiom about predicting the future.—
Richard Deitsch,
The Athletic,
31 Dec. 2024
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