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Why Wider Access Doesn’t Make the Work Simpler Broader access can sometimes flatten the conversation around AI, as though expansion automatically means simplification.
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Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Backlash to the plan has simmered over the last week, with lawmakers feeling as though they and community members were left out of the conversations.
—Dan Snyder, CBS News, 7 May 2026
Even novels and feature films that criticized the war were being told from the American point of view, as though Iraqis barely existed.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
And the most powerful among them, particularly those who didn’t face actual criminal charges, managed to put their head down, console themselves with their enormous bank account, and gradually reemerge into public life as though nothing had happened.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
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Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Backlash to the plan has simmered over the last week, with lawmakers feeling as though they and community members were left out of the conversations.
—Dan Snyder, CBS News, 7 May 2026
Even novels and feature films that criticized the war were being told from the American point of view, as though Iraqis barely existed.
—Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
And the most powerful among them, particularly those who didn’t face actual criminal charges, managed to put their head down, console themselves with their enormous bank account, and gradually reemerge into public life as though nothing had happened.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
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“As though.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/as%20though. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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