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Verb
  • The equation no longer corresponds to a Turing machine that computes perfect squares—and, more generally, the Diophantine equations can no longer encode the halting problem.
    Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Under Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force has defined a highly effective strategy; corresponding operational concepts and technologies; and a new training regimen to ensure U.S. equities in space are secured.
    David A. Deptula, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Liu’s career has, however, neatly coincided with the post-Mao period — one that has seen architecture freed from state control and socialist ideals.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
  • My trip happened to coincide with a visit by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
    Nicholas Lalla, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This order serves only two purposes: to score partisan political points in a manufactured culture war and to purge the military of those who don’t conform to MAGA ideology.
    Johnny Weixler, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Fear of retaliation, social conditioning, and the pressure to conform make speaking up difficult.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Elections last September produced a largely inconclusive result, and for three months the ‘ruling’ centre-right OVP party and a host of smaller parties - Social Democrats and liberal Neos party (and the Greens) - struggled to agree on a coalition programme.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Close observers agree, saying Newsom’s mandate appears to have been driven by political calculations more so than just about creating more spontaneous meetups at the water cooler.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025
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