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the explanatory section has as its heading "What the New Tax Changes Mean"
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Having lost his memory and, with it, some of this explanatory mediation, Craint shares something with a child negotiating the world for the first time.
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Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
That’s monitored via a mobile app and a live camera feed, while passers-by are mollified by the cabin temperature shown on the car’s main display screen alongside an explanatory graphic.
—Jason Barlow, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024
The National Energy Technology Laboratory has a good explanatory video of pre-combustion gasification technology.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Last year, a separate article focused on landlords – in this case, The Landlord & the Tenant, a narrative story about what happened to each after a fatal fire – was a Loeb finalist, in the explanatory category.
—Journal Sentinel Staff, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024
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Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
That’s monitored via a mobile app and a live camera feed, while passers-by are mollified by the cabin temperature shown on the car’s main display screen alongside an explanatory graphic.
—Jason Barlow, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024
The National Energy Technology Laboratory has a good explanatory video of pre-combustion gasification technology.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Last year, a separate article focused on landlords – in this case, The Landlord & the Tenant, a narrative story about what happened to each after a fatal fire – was a Loeb finalist, in the explanatory category.
—Journal Sentinel Staff, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024
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