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Noun
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The forecaster who makes the most accurate predictions, as early as possible, can earn a cash prize and, perhaps more important, the esteem of the world’s most talented seers.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026 -
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
8 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Find a hot, sunny spot in the garden for evergreen sages like Southern Living's 'Killer Cranberry', which is pictured here.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
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Smee and his group have planted 40 or 50 white sages to help rebuild the local population.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But one of California’s leading political savants, Paul Mitchell, has developed a helpful online tool to suss out the possibilities.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Ted Taylor and Freeman Dyson, two other mid-century savants of the atom, spent years at General Atomic designing a gigantic spacecraft that would weigh thousands of tons and propel itself to Mars, Saturn, and the nearby stars with nuclear explosions.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The idea was then taken up by other Scottish scholars, including James Frazer, whose widely read compendium The Golden Bough (1890) attempted to establish cross-cultural parallels in mythology.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Geoff Canada, president of Harlem Children’s Zone, has known Bessent for 30 years and said the treasury secretary has mentored one of the program’s scholars for more than a decade.—
Fatima Hussein,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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Walsh and Knowles, conservative political pundits and podcasters with The Daily Wire, were the headliners.—
Saige Miller,
NPR,
30 Apr. 2026
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In the aftermath, online commenters and political pundits have amplified claims that American graduates are losing training spots to international graduates.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
30 Apr. 2026
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