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discoveries

noun

plural of discovery

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the act or process of sighting or learning the existence of something for the first time the discovery of a new species of starfish

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something discovered his many zoological discoveries include several species of birds

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Recent Examples of discoveries This column highlights some of Rick’s favorite places and travel insights over a lifetime of exploring Europe and sharing his discoveries. — Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026 New data published in The BMJ from a recent six-year research period provided some harrowing discoveries. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA's next great observatory poised to lead humanity's next generation of astronomical discoveries. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026 One of the most surprising discoveries was that the forests did not enter the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in decline. — Regan E. Dunn, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026 Drones or fragments of them were found on Romanian territory 27 times so far this year, the ministry said, a significant increase compared with the 16 such discoveries in all of 2025. — David Brennan, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026 Passing the test One of the nicer discoveries in seismology has been the realization that the same fiber-optic cables that rush cat pics to your LAN can act as seismometers. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026 Her effort enabled countless discoveries in the near-Earth space environment that has become increasingly important for human activities in space. — John Werner, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Many of this season’s new discoveries, including guest stars Brittany Allen and Jeff Kober, made a strong impression as hospital patients. — Matt Minton, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

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Recovery Is Not the Absence of Work Perhaps the least intuitive of Friedman's findings concerns rest.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
In general, the Latinos surveyed put more trust in what Democrats might bring to the state than Republicans, but Madrid warned that Democrats should not take too much solace in these findings.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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After the government takes its share—25 percent in the Bahamas and 50 percent in the Philippines—Allen Exploration keeps the remaining finds together.

— Brett Berk, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026
There’s no shortage of stellar markdowns to shop in Amazon’s sale section this week, but these $20-and-under finds are true standouts.

— Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026

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Dow Gardens—a 110-acre botanical garden with walking paths and guided nature explorations—is here.

— Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 20 Aug. 2026
The hotel is five miles from the Great Basin National Park entrance, and within 60 miles of Ely—an easy distance for daytime explorations through town.

— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of explorations

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Given sufficient time, though, this leads to transformative therapies and inventions that become a part of our well-being and livelihood.

— Brendon Davis, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2026
Think of the stirrup, sometimes credited as being one of the three most important inventions in the course of history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2026

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