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evolution

[ev-uh-loo-shuhn, ee-vuh-] / ˌɛv əˈlu ʃən, ˌi və- /


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She speaks to Lucy Owen about the evolution of how her villain character became Welsh.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The Senedd expanded to 96 members for May's elections, which represented a "significant moment in the continued evolution of Welsh democracy," said the first minister.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

That evolution financed the recovery and helped keep the U.S. an attractive place to build a company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The discovery challenges a traditional view of genome architecture as something that primarily changes in response to evolution.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The idea hit him as he read a book about the evolution of the U.S. bond market and the creation, in the mid-1990s, at J.P.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Mayo’s hire is the latest in a series of changes inside OpenAI’s infrastructure organization, which has gone through several evolutions since Altman announced the company’s Stargate initiative at the White House in January 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

“We are very much focused on making sure these new technology evolutions can also be supported and powered by our rails, not necessarily the card rails, but any type of rails,” Lambert told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● May 25, 2026

But having a bot read a transcript and identify the relevant sections for me to verify is a massive time-saver, one of my favorite technological evolutions of any product I’ve used in my career.

From Slate ● May 24, 2026

But philosophy and plans, even if evolutions rather than revolutions, take time to bed in.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

Human history has no purpose or goal; but there are plenty of origins, foundations, evolutions and developments, and if you leave them out then you leave out any possibility of understanding change.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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