as in amending
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the first printout quickly revealed that our computer program needed to be emended
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The option can reduce taxes on that one-time payment and does not require amending a prior return, according to the IRS.—
Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Lorie Konish,Kamaron McNair,Greg Iacurci,Mike Winters,Sarah Agostino,
CNBC,
29 Mar. 2026 -
Meantime, leaders are considering amending figure skating’s rules and technical requirements that will prioritize athlete longevity, potentially at the expense of boundary-pushing quadruple jumps.—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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The resulting management overhead — spending elite engineering time correcting outputs and paying the high token costs of ungrounded prompts — eventually outweighs the initial speed of creation.—
Mohith Shrivastava,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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This suggests the players were continuously correcting their movements mid-execution.—
David Van den Heever,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2026
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Whether that means rewriting a love ballad in a couple of days or suiting up in a onesie for a press event on the other side of the world, the commitment never wavers.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2026
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The team had brought on an old compatriot from EA as well as some AI specialists who were rewriting all of Proxi’s code.—
Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Emending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emending. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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