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gentries

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plural of gentry

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one of the segments of society into which people are grouped the old-line yachting gentry frowns on vulgar displays of wealth

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Imperial Business School has already created digital twins of professors, while Georgia Tech has deployed AI teaching assistant Jill Watson across large online classes.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
He was sentenced to 45 days in jail and four years of probation and ordered to complete 52 domestic violence classes.

— Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 both closed at their lowest levels in nearly two weeks.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Biden raised troop levels there to about 100,000, backed by seven fighter squadrons, six destroyers, and roughly 100 nuclear gravity bombs.

— JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026

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The team also traded away Luis Arraez and Heliot Ramos for prospects, further thinning their ranks.

— Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon join the ranks of iconic observatories like the Hubble and James Webb telescopes – plumbing the far reaches of the cosmos to answer some of life's greatest mysteries.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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