However, systems, policymakers and technologists need to fix the mismatch between these two phenomena.
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Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Scientists can draw on it to identify and study 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of millions of galaxies, billions of stars, and rare objects and phenomena — including some that astronomers have never witnessed before.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2026
This, and other quirks of pronunciation or vocabulary, are easy tells when accents have otherwise smoothed into plain old American and traditional clothing has been shed in favor of jeans and T-shirts.
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Eythana Miller,
The Dial,
23 June 2026
An air traffic controller might be locked in on the quirks of a certain runway.
Wealth buys choice, leverage, and a cushion for the vagaries of a market economy.
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Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
This is especially true for small businesses, which are particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of California’s most hostile business environment in the nation.
If the job of a debut album is to introduce an artist to the world, while a sophomore album reinforces their reputation, then a third album offers a channel for artists to expand beyond the familiar tricks and peculiarities that shot them to fame in the first place.
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Chelsey Sanchez,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
For thousands of years, scholars have investigated the peculiarities of irrational numbers.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
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