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exercise

[ek-ser-sahyz] / ˈɛk sərˌsaɪz /






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After three suboptimal innings, Glasnow settled down in a trust-building exercise of an outing against the Giants and their triple A-caliber lineup.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Unlike Google, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 model didn’t stop during the capture-the-flag exercise after realizing it was likely accessing a real company, according to Anthropic’s blog post.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

He tearfully tells his mother that other kids have been calling him “chubby wubby” and asks whether he might get a bicycle so he can exercise.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

"He was able to exercise those rights in the court and a judge with that information reached a different conclusion."

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Before lunch he’d swim laps in the White House pool, originally installed so Franklin D. Roosevelt could exercise muscles damaged by polio.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

In 2024, she quit to launch TideFlow, an app that tracks sleep, provides meditation exercises and offers recommendations for better rest.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Russia and China are conducting joint military exercises in the far north.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2026

Hydrotherapy, which involves exercises or treatments performed in warm water, was especially effective for reducing pain.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

In each Hyrox race, participants alternate between running a kilometre and doing fitness exercises, such as the sled push, burpee jumps, indoor rowing, and lunges while carrying a sandbag.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong was at the center of it all and exercised the crypto industry’s sway over the bill as its de facto leader.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Volatility is a key component in the pricing of options, as it determines how likely an option will be exercised, depending on the time to expiration.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

Hertz, who argued the sheriff’s case after Riverside’s county counsel largely sided with the plaintiffs, said Bianco simply exercised his legal discretion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

He'd exercised a lot when he was younger but was now struggling to do that.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

With the jackhammers silent, 426 fed Frightful again and nervously sat down and brooded the eggs while she exercised.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

As for the residual costs of exercising her right to offend back in 2017, Griffin confirmed that some of her shows still draw protesters.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

Before exercising, the participants had gone without food for at least 10 hours.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

For now, however, doctors suggest that Americans address their heart health with tried-and-true methods like exercising more, not smoking, and controlling their blood pressure, according to Caprio.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

"A one-size-fits-all model of 'you should be exercising this way in this phase and a different way in a different phase' shouldn't be advice that applies to all women," she says.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

I think what he was actually doing was exercising his legs—putting as much weight on them as he could, a bit more each time.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien




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