locus classicus

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Noun
  • As a result, Nvidia’s stock price dropped 17% and lost nearly $600 billion in value on Monday, based on the idea that their chips would be less valuable under this new paradigm.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025
  • In this paradigm, the ideal worker is less like a corporate ally or a trusted collaborator and more like a subject of an authoritarian regime.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The criminal ring has allegedly also used AI software in some instances to reproduce the voice of Italy’s Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto and is said to have reassured the entrepreneurs that the Bank of Italy would repay the loan in due time.
    Martino Carrera, WWD, 9 Feb. 2025
  • In both instances, the Eagles defeated arguably the NFL’s most dominant team.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For example a key assumption of the city’s plan anticipates future major capital improvements to maintain and expand water, sewer, and stormwater systems, including treatment facilities, wells, pipe oversizing, and water tower.
    Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Following a quick free kick in the first half, for example, Savinho scampers down the line with just his full-back to beat.
    Thom Harris, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The radar cross section of the Earth's surface can be large, on the order of a million times as great as the cross section of targets.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2021
  • The task before the Islamic Republic is to win over a broad cross section of its citizens while simultaneously defining what shape its revolutionary project, and its state apparatus, will take over the long term.
    Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2019
Noun
  • That included a total of 52 brain specimens, 28 from 2016 and 24 from 2024.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Similar organic molecules, including amino acids, have been detected in meteorites before, but these fragments of space rocks are imperfect specimens because they are studied after enduring fiery trips through Earth's atmosphere.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Related article Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say The South Pole–Aitken basin is estimated to be about 4.3 billion years old, but only rock samples will be able to prove whether that’s the case, Petro said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The team compared the oldest samples with tissue collected in 2024.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Directing over 100 feature film, video and television productions in the last 35 years, Miike is known for cult classics like Audition (2000), Ichi the Killer (2001) and 13 Assassins (2011).
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The woody note started making its way into fragrances shortly thereafter, and in 2006, this cult classic was born.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The prototype, which bears more than a passing resemblance to a concept the motorsports organization showed off last year, features a tri-motor powertrain that makes over 1,300 hp.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Flying Whales has already raised over US$300 million of public and private funding, according to PitchBook, and is still a couple years out from testing a prototype ... at best.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
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