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develop

[dih-vel-uhp] / dɪˈvɛl əp /






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“Scammers recognize this and devote a lot of time to develop the trust needed to exploit the victim.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

This hidden safety bias could transform how researchers study language, understand human behavior, and develop artificial intelligence systems that interpret what people say and write.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Pentagon said the military’s job is to develop and present options to the president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

They also found that removing Mitch could interfere with the process through which immature cells develop into fat cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Remember, self-assessment is only for your benefit to develop and grow as a person, and is not punitive.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

But the AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said it would be a "major new global institution" that brings together "world-leading scientific expertise" to ensure the UK can safeguard its citizens and goals as AI develops.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Beyond their evolutionary significance, these discoveries provide a foundation for investigating how the human brain develops and what happens when those processes are disrupted.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Last month Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle said people should prepare for extreme weather as the strongest El Niño event in a generation develops over the Pacific Ocean.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Poso’s owner, Long Beach-based California Resources Corp., advertises itself as “a carbon management company that develops emissions reducing projects.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self-worth.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

It would mean a mayoral body taking control of how Oxford Street was developed while removing planning powers for the area from Westminster Council.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Paladin works with Critical Materials Recycling, a Boone, Iowa company that is commercializing a leaching process developed at Ames National Laboratory to extract nearly all the rare earths from electronic waste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

These elevated responses were especially noticeable in individuals who eventually developed complicated Crohn's disease or disease affecting the ileum, the final section of the small intestine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The researchers also developed a scenario explaining how this mixing could have occurred, with Jupiter emerging as a key player.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Around 4.5 billion years ago, it may have been a particularly important meeting place for material traveling from different parts of the developing Solar System.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

According to the American Cancer Society, the average risk of a woman in the US developing breast cancer is about 1 in 8, or 13%.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The tide turned on Thursday, after Meta Platforms said it would create a new class of nonvoting stock to raise the capital needed for developing and serving AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"The direction of Brazilian environmental policy carries a lot of weight in international negotiations," a French diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity, highlighting Brazil's role in coalitions among developing nations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

“It appears to just be slowly developing all across the top.”

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone


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