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Penelope scrolls through her profile somewhat quickly, so a viewer might miss the timestamp of the post and subsequently interpret the information of her parents’ deaths to be retroactive.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
Zombie mortgages — which are effectively second mortgages that homeowners had thought were settled — can cause some serious problems, from retroactive interest and racked up late fees to debt collections and possible foreclosure.
—Becca Stanek, theweek, 4 July 2024
Although the current master contract was extended through that date, every member will receive a retroactive payment dating back to Oct. 1 if a new contract gets put in place.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2024
Woo voted for that contract, which gave officers retroactive pay raises.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
Zombie mortgages — which are effectively second mortgages that homeowners had thought were settled — can cause some serious problems, from retroactive interest and racked up late fees to debt collections and possible foreclosure.
—Becca Stanek, theweek, 4 July 2024
Although the current master contract was extended through that date, every member will receive a retroactive payment dating back to Oct. 1 if a new contract gets put in place.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2024
Woo voted for that contract, which gave officers retroactive pay raises.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
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Related Articles The retrospective marks the fourth in a series of exhibitions presented by the MOP Foundation president Marta Ortega Pérez, daughter of Inditex owner Amancio Ortega.Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
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The first step in preventing bias is conducting a retrospective audit of existing systems and decision-making processes.Amber Nigam, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Administrations have tended to declassify broad analytic judgments that carry little risk to sources and methods, leaving out the sensitive intelligence nuggets that could allow the source to be identified.David V. Gioe, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
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In contrast to almost all historical analytic methods, LLMs don't natively provide any kind of audit trail or record of decision by default.Mike Flaxman, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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The process of chopping, stirring and simmering is meditative.Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
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This exhibition is a fusion of colour and textile, geometry and abstraction, and a deeply contemplative and meditative experience which succeeds in elevating textile art to the status of a fine art.Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The blood-boiling conversation is reflective of how these girls — most of them rape victims — are perceived by the system.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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Note: This shopping guide was created through reader submissions and is not reflective of every Small Business Saturday sale or event in Louisville.Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
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As readers of our September print issue know, this contemplative space was created for us by two women of singular grace and taste: Sheila Chandra, mythopoetic mesmer, and Lera Lynn, spare queen of post-Americana.Lera Lynn |, SPIN, 22 Nov. 2024
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For both writers — and this is true for Renaissance humanism at large — there is no contemplative life without the active life — the two modes necessarily co-exist.Peter Rubin, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2024
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The album then descends into a mix of West Coast bops and pensive soulful cuts, tapping Mustard yet again and a slew of local west coast artists that people may not have been familiar with.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
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There have been city symphonies in cinema before, but Kapadia’s film is altogether more pensive and intimate.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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These agents, unlike chatbots or copilots, can use logical reasoning and higher-level decision-making to carry out tasks, and are considered the next step in AI development.Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2024
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In so many ways, Erivo seems built to take on a song like this, not just in terms of hitting the notes but showing the way the song takes the character’s arc to the next logical step.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
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