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He would rather crash the relationship himself than be surprised yet again by the treachery of another person.

I would rather eat my lunch without working.

In other words, rather than being Indigenous or Portuguese, Moacir is something new, a mix that Sommer calls "quintessentially Brazilian.”

For example, I'd rather have sushi than a sandwich for lunch.

They may become excessively idealistic rather than realistic about what is good enough.

It costs energy rather than happening automatically.

Only go to one dealer in a rather high-class part of the town.

Computers that compute on atoms rather than on transistors.

And there is a risk that clouds might darken rather than brighten, reducing the cooling effect.

The goal is to make your reaction the problem rather than what was said.

That they’re rather hateworthy.

There is a trait where most variation does occur between populations, rather than within them.

They decide that they will henceforth choose suffering rather than have it forced on them; they opt to turn a necessity into something akin to a choice.

As you might expect, they did rather well.

This stops the conversation from becoming a debate about character rather than behavior.

And so therefore, that would give you a sense that dark energy is a property of space rather than a field in space.

And what was so interesting about them is because they're made out of polished steel rather than mirror, there's a depth to them.

AlphaFold predicts the structure of proteins rather than words and sentences, but under the hood, it's not much different from Claude or GPT, algorithms running on silicon and trained on vast reservoirs of data.

And this is the myth that the brain is a computer that just happens to be made of meat rather than metal.

I do see our generation as finding what I'll call biosignature objects of interest, rather than like a confirmed legit sign of life and finding the bright side, that “Wow.

they see it as being in their interest to uh reach a more durable agreement rather than to resume the war and and go another even more destructive round of fighting.

That’s because race is a social construct, an idea that has been created by and agreed upon by a society, rather than a biological category.

We were supposed to reduce the cost of big steel tracks, and we had a group sitting there of rather old buyers basically telling us everything is optimal.

Others contended that the problem wasn’t a woman leading a prayer—it was that she did it in public, rather than at home among other women.

AMNA NAWAZ: Gary is also one of the poorest cities in America, and experts have noticed -- noted, rather, that severe weather and natural disasters tend to disproportionately hurt lower-income communities.

The particles would need constant replenishing and the scale would be enormous and there is a risk that clouds might darken rather than brighten, reducing the cooling effect.

We'll be able to do molecular experiments in the memory of a computer rather than in a Petri dish, trying to look at hundreds of chemicals to find out which one is medically relevant.

Studies have shown that if used in the wrong way, or in the wrong hands, they could change large-scale weather patterns, warming the polar regions rather than cooling them and altering rainfall around the world.