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The polarization penalty, the cost paid for treating gender equity as a culture war issue rather than a balance sheet issue, is costing the nation solvency.—
Katica Roy,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026 -
This year’s Mido marked the first edition since VSP Vision, parent of Marchon Eyewear, completed its acquisition of Marcolin, creating a new eyewear powerhouse seen fueling the polarization of the sector.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
9 Feb. 2026
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This is a tunnel to nowhere and just a part of a much larger plan costing tens of billions more, but segmentation isn’t permitted under the law for funding purposes.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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In health and wellness, machine learning already powers drug discovery, patient segmentation, and outcome tracking.—
Aisha Alves,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2026
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The team is using a process called thermal decomposition to unlock the chemical secrets of neptunium.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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Slower decomposition of food scraps can attract rodents and other unwanted critters.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
1 Feb. 2026
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The full production process included wet chemical cleaning, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), phosphorus diffusion, atomic layer deposition (ALD), laser patterning, physical vapor deposition (PVD), isolation, and screen printing.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Feb. 2026
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These equations represent phenomena that vary across space but not time, such as the pressure of water flowing through rock, the distribution of stress on a bridge, or the diffusion of nutrients in a tumor.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Edgewater Stormwater Project replaces a culvert under the old railroad north of the Edgewater subdivision.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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Saturday, in a subdivision near the intersection of Jerimoth and Cuddington drives in east Charlotte.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Feb. 2026
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To minimize chromatic aberration, the smart telescope is outfitted with a four-element apochromatic lens with extra-low-dispersion (ED) glass.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Jan. 2026
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This kind of dispersion from advanced markets like Japan to emerging economies like South Africa illustrates why a global lens matters.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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But his real breakthrough went beyond atomization.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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One of Wallace’s driving anxieties, a black thread running through this novel, was that television addiction (including his own) was inducing brain rot, social atomization, and spiritual death.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Dichotomization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomization. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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