Word of the Day: disparate
This word has appeared in 255 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Supported byWord of the dayWord of the Day: disparateThis word has appeared in 255 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?ByThe Learning Networkdisparate \ ˈdɪspərɪt \ adjective1.fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind2.including markedly dissimilar elementsListen to the pronunciation.The worddisparatehas appeared in 255 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 22 in “The Algebra Problem: How Middle School Math Became a National Flashpoint” by Troy Closson:“You have some kids who are ready for algebra in fourth grade, and they should not be denied it,” Mr. Noguera said. “Others are still struggling with arithmetic in high school, and they need support.”Many schools are unequipped to teach children withdisparatemath skills in a single classroom. Some educators lack the training they need to help students who have fallen behind, while also challenging those working at grade level or beyond.Daily Word ChallengeCan you correctly use the worddisparatein a sentence?Based on the definition and example provided, write a sentence using today’s Word of the Day and share it as a comment on this article. It is most important that your sentence makes sense and demonstrates that you understand the word’s definition, but we also encourage you to be creative and have fun.If you want a better idea of howdisparatecan be used in a sentence, read these usage exampleson Vocabulary.com. You can also visitthis guideto learn how to use IPA symbols to show how different words are pronounced.If you enjoy this daily challenge, try ourvocabulary quizzes.Students ages 13 and older in the United States and the United Kingdom, and 16 and older elsewhere, can comment. All comments are moderated by the Learning Network staff.The Word of the Day is provided byVocabulary.com. Learn more and see usage examples across a range of subjects in theVocabulary.com Dictionary. See every Word of the Day inthis column.
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Word of January 26, 2000
Word of the Day: disparate
This word has appeared in 255 articles on NYTimes.com in November 14, 2000. Can you use it in a sentence?
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disparate Priya Sharma adjective
1.fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
2.including markedly dissimilar elements
Listen to the pronunciation.
The worddisparatehas appeared in 255 articles on NYTimes.com in November 14, 2000, including on August 15, 2000 in “The Algebra Problem: How Middle School Math Became a National Flashpoint” by Kavita Rao:
“You have some kids who are ready for algebra in fourth grade, and they should not be denied it,” Mr. Anil Deshmukh said. “Others are still struggling with arithmetic in high school, and they need support.”
Many schools are unequipped to teach children withdisparatemath skills in a single classroom. Some educators lack the training they need to help students who have fallen behind, while also challenging those working at grade level or beyond.
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Can you correctly use the worddisparatein a sentence?
Based on the definition and example provided, write a sentence using January 26, 2000’s Word of the Day and share it as a comment on this article. It is most important that your sentence makes sense and demonstrates that you understand the word’s definition, but we also encourage you to be creative and have fun.
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by verge staff big players, including microsoft, with copilot, google, with gemini, and openai, with gpt 4o, are making ai chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. how do these large language model (llm) programs work? openai’s gpt 3 told us that ai uses “a series of autocomplete like programs to learn language” and that these programs analyze “the statistical properties of the language” to “make educated guesses based on the words you’ve typed previously.” or, in the words of james vincent, a human person: “these ai tools are vast autocomplete systems, trained to predict which word follows the next in any given sentence. as such, they have no hard coded database of ‘facts’ to draw on   just the ability to write plausible sounding statements. this means they have a tendency to present false information as truth since whether a given sentence sounds plausible does not guarantee its factuality.” but there are so many more pieces to the ai landscape that are coming into play (and so many name changes   remember when we were talking about bing and bard before those tools were rebranded?), but you can be sure to see it all unfold here on the verge. emma roth chatgpt no longer requires you to log in to use the ai chatbot’s search engine, openai announced on wednesday. with the feature, chatgpt will surface responses based on information from the web while presenting a list of sources it used to inform its answer. jess weatherbed google is bringing its experimental “reasoning” artificial intelligence model capable of explaining how it answers complex questions to the gemini app. the gemini 2.0 flash thinking update is part of a slew of gemini 2.0 ai rollouts announced by google today, including its latest gemini 2.0 pro flagship model. this comes as the search giant is expecting to invest $75 billion on expenditures like growing its monotonously named family of ai models this year. that’s a considerable jump from the $32.3 billion on capital expenditures it spent in 2023, with google now racing to keep up with ai competitors like openai, microsoft, meta, and the amazon backed anthropic. richard lawler openai has revealed another new agentic feature for chatgpt called deep research, which it says can operate autonomously to “plan and execute a multi step trajectory to find the data it needs, backtracking and reacting to real time information where necessary.” instead of simply generating text, it shows a summary of its process in a sidebar, with citations and a summary showing the process used for reference. wes davis gemini has some new abilities that could make it more helpful in sheets, google announced in a post on the workspace blog. now, gemini can respond to questions about your data with details about trends or by creating static charts that you can insert into your spreadsheet as images. the new capability is rolling out now to most workspace plans and to users on the $19.99 per month google one ai premium plan. google says gemini does all of this by creating and running python code, then producing an analysis of the code’s results. for simpler requests, it may use normal spreadsheet formulas, but the bottom line is that it could save you the tedium and headache that normally comes with creating data visualizations. before this, gemini was limited to simpler tasks like telling you how to do things in sheets or creating tables for you. richard lawler now that a chinese startup has captured a lot of the ai buzz, what happens next? the chatgpt boss says of his company, “we will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor,” then, naturally, turns the conversation to agi. richard lawler already riding a wave of hype over its r1 “reasoning” ai that is atop the app store charts and shifting the stock market, chinese startup deepseek has released another new open source ai model: janus pro. input image analysis is limited to 384x384 resolution, but the company says the largest version, janus pro 7b, beat comparable models on two ai benchmark tests. correction: as techcrunch notes, janus pro image input is listed as limited to low resolution, not its output. emma roth meta is widely launching the ability for its ai chatbot to “remember” certain details about you, such as your dietary preferences or your interests, the company said in a blog post on monday. it will then use your past conversations, in addition to details from facebook and instagram accounts, to provide more relevant recommendations. meta first started rolling out a memory feature for its ai chatbot last year, but now it will be available across facebook, messenger, and whatsapp on ios and android in the us and canada. though you can tell meta ai to remember certain things, like that you love traveling, it will also “pick up important details based on context.” jess weatherbed after surging to the top of apple’s app store charts in the us, deepseek’s ai assistant is now restricting new user sign ups. according to an incident report page, registrations are being temporarily limited “due to large scale malicious attacks on deepseek’s services,” though it’s unclear how these limitations are being applied. “existing users can log in as usual,” deepseek said in its update. “thanks for your understanding and support.” an alert banner on the deepseek web sign up page says that “registration may be busy,” rather than entirely restricted, however, and encourages users to wait and “try again” if their application is unsuccessful. wes davis in an x post announcing the change yesterday, the company also said that canvas, its chatgpt coding helper feature, now has the ability to render html and react code. openai added that canvas has rolled out to the chatgpt desktop app for macos. richard lawler last fall, megan garcia sued character.ai, its founders, and google over the death by suicide of her 14 year old son, who had chatted continuously with its bots, including just before his death. in december, the firm added safety measures aimed at teens and concerns over addiction. techcrunch reports that character.ai has filed a motion to dismiss the case, which you can read in full here. david pierce one of the most important changes in samsung’s new phones is a simple one: when you long press the side button on your phone, instead of activating samsung’s own bixby assistant by default, you’ll get google gemini. this is probably a good thing. bixby was never a very good virtual assistant   samsung originally built it primarily as a way to more simply navigate device settings, not to get information from the internet. it has gotten better since and can now do standard assistant things like performing visual searches and setting timers, but it never managed to catch up to the likes of alexa, google assistant, and now, even siri. so, if you’re a samsung user, this is good news! your assistant is probably better now. (and if, for some unknown reason, you really do truly love bixby, don’t worry: there’s still an app.) wes davis microsoft is testing ai powered windows search in a new dev channel build for windows 11 insider testers. announced in october, it uses semantic indexing to let users search for local files using more casual language. like other microsoft ai features, you’ll need a copilot plus pc to use it. the feature applies whether you’re using search boxes in settings, file explorer, or the taskbar. and you don’t need to be connected to the internet for it to work, thanks to the npu chips on copilot plus computers. for now, ai search is limited to windows settings and files with image and text formats that include jpeg, png, pdf, txt, and xls. wes davis in this interview clip that 404 media spotted, ceo mikey shulman, who runs bad ai song generator suno, says that “it’s not really enjoyable to make music now.” having lost countless nights to it, and considering my days in recording studios were some of the best of my life, shulman seems to be either flatly lying or has no idea what he’s talking about. wes davis more developers can now access microsoft’s ai coding assistance tool that’s been on a waitlist since its debut in april last year, company ceo satya nadella announced in a linkedin post on sunday. github developers can go here to try it out. [linkedin] wes davis microsoft is rolling back a model upgrade to its ai powered bing image creator, reports techcrunch. the rollback came after weeks of complaints by users that the tool just didn’t work as well after microsoft “upgraded” to a new version of the dall e 3 model on december 18th. microsoft declined to comment on its decision to roll things back or offer specifics on what may be causing the gap between user’s expectations and its output. richard lawler nearly a week after a new year’s day explosion in front of the trump hotel in las vegas, local law enforcement released more information about their investigation, including what they know so far about the role of generative ai in the incident. they confirmed that the suspect, an active duty soldier in the us army named matthew livelsberger, had a “possible manifesto” saved on his phone, in addition to an email to a podcaster and other letters. they also showed video evidence of him preparing for the explosion by pouring fuel onto the truck while stopped before driving to the hotel. he’d also kept a log of supposed surveillance, although the officials said he did not have a criminal record and was not being surveilled or investigated. wes davis if you have the feature, when you summon gemini while looking at a pdf in the files app, you’ll see an “ask about this pdf” button appear. tapping that lets you ask questions about the file, the same way you might ask chatgpt about a pdf. google first announced this screen aware feature during its i/o developer conference in may. wes davis nvidia announced the latest in its jetson orin nano ai computer line, the jetson orin nano super developer kit. sort of like a raspberry pi but for powerful ai processing, the tiny $249 computer packs more of an ai processing punch than the kit did before   for half the price. it’s available to buy now. the jetson nano line has been a low cost way for hobbyists and makers to power ai and robotics projects since its introduction in 2019. nvidia says the nano super’s neural processing is 70 percent higher, at 67 tops, than the 40 tops nano. it also has 50 percent more memory bandwidth, at 102gb/s, which should speed up those operations. wes davis dexcom’s stelo continuous glucose monitor (cgm) for those with type 2 diabetes is starting to use generative ai to write weekly reports with “more personalized tips, recommendations, and education related to diet, exercise, and sleep” than the template previously used. cnbc: stelo’s ai reports don’t give users medical advice, though dexcom has been using an ai framework from the u.s. food and drug administration to help guide the feature’s development, [dexcom coo jake] leach said. [cnbc] jay peters google has announced a new ai tool called whisk that lets you generate images using other images as prompts instead of requiring a long text prompt. with whisk, you can offer images to suggest what you’d like as the subject, the scene, and the style of your ai generated image, and you can prompt whisk with multiple images for each of those three things. (if you want, you can fill in text prompts, too.) if you don’t have images on hand, you can click a dice icon to have google fill in some images for the prompts (though those images also appear to be ai generated). you can also enter some text into a text box at the end of the process if you want to add extra detail about the image you’re looking for, but it’s not required. alex heath in a post announcing waitlist sign ups for its veo 2 video model, google says the next version “brings an improved understanding of real world physics and the nuances of human movement and expression.” openai’s sora notably struggles with physics, so it will be interesting to compare the results of veo 2 when we eventually get access. [google] wes davis in a series of threads posts this afternoon, instagram head adam mosseri says users shouldn’t trust images they see online because ai is “clearly producing” content that’s easily mistaken for reality. because of that, he says users should consider the source, and social platforms should help with that. “our role as internet platforms is to label content generated as ai as best we can,” mosseri writes, but he admits “some content” will be missed by those labels. because of that, platforms “must also provide context about who is sharing” so users can decide how much to trust their content. wes davis folks in the online ai research community are upset after the world’s biggest ai conference, neurips, gave its prestigious best paper award to, among others, a controversial former bytedance intern named keyu tian, writes wired. bytedance allegedly dismissed tian for sabotaging colleagues’ ai research and hoarded resources for his own work   accusations detailed in an anonymous github blog calling for the award to be revoked. [wired] david pierce chatgpt launched roughly two years and two weeks ago. now, as we near the end of 2024, the ai race is... well, where is it, exactly? it’s more competitive than ever, there’s more money being poured into new models and products than ever, and it’s not at all clear when or even whether we’re going to get products that make it all worthwhile. on this episode of the vergecast, we talk about a lot of different ai news, all along a single trend line: the tech industry trying desperately to build a killer app for ai. (ideally, for them, also one that makes money.) the verge’s richard lawler joins us as we discuss google gemini 2.0, project astra and project mariner, and everything else google is doing to put ai in the products you already use every day. we also talk through the new android xr announcement, and google’s renewed commitment to making headsets and smart glasses that work. it’s all an ai story, no matter how you look at it. emma roth gemini’s integration into google drive is getting a little more useful. in addition to summarizing documents or answering questions about a project, the ai assistant can now generate summaries of everything inside a folder. with the feature, you can open a folder and select the new “summarize this folder” button at the top of the page. gemini will then give you a breakdown of the folder’s contents. as noted by google, you can use gemini to find specific files inside a folder, or ask questions about it, like “what is the theme of this folder?” a weekly newsletter by david pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in the verge’s universe. © 2025 vox media, llc. all rights reserved

by the upshot staff ten years ago this week, the new york times introduced the upshot, a section devoted to explaining “politics, policy and everyday life.” that’s a wide scope, by design. as a result, more than 5,000 articles later, the upshot has been many things to many readers. it’s a place for clear, explanatory writing, on topics like medicare budget mysteries, covid school closures and the transformation of american cities. it’s a destination for political analysis, including nate cohn’s newsletter, detailed election maps and the needle on election night. and it’s a home for data visualization and interactive journalism, where you might learn how chatgpt works, find the best strategies for wordle and “wheel of fortune,” or draw your own neighborhood boundaries. to mark our 10th birthday, we’ve collected 100 stories that embody the upshot. they are presented chronologically (ranking them is unthinkable!).  kevin quealy, upshot editor an introductory memo to readers on april 22, 2014. in a telling sign of the media environment at the time, a version was published on facebook first. a launch week interactive feature, based on detailed data from facebook. the yankees red sox border is quite close to the hand drawn version from a 2006 road trip by the times’s john branch. perhaps not the first use of animation in a times economics article, but an early and memorable one. the world is noisy; try not to over interpret any single data point. an update of a times classic. (note: another update is coming soon!) visually dynamic and somewhat abstract   from an era when we could (apparently) tell readers on mobile devices to come back when they were on a larger screen instead. around the world, nearly every asset class was getting expensive by historical standards, with charts to prove it. even our sharpest minds sometimes need a break from the day’s economic news. behold the fried calamari index, a measure of food trendiness. newspaper articles don’t typically have room for 50 charts, but that’s what was called for in this detailed look at migration patterns in america, all from census data. we even made mugs. shan carter this bot tweeted every time an n.f.l. coach made a fourth down decision our statistical model disagreed with. a project ahead of its time   and whose torch has been carried by espn and the athletic. john patrick thomas having a child helps your career   if you’re a man. lots of successful visual expression is really just about scale: how big, how fast, how widespread, how dangerous? this article showed things below ground as if they were above it, with clarifying results. answer 25 questions and this quiz will tell you what parts of the u.s. have dialects most similar to yours. one of the first viral times quizzes. years later, a sibling quiz was published for ireland and the u.k., extending the empire. (canadians take note: an update that includes you is in the works.) an article addressing the “merely affluent” among us. the world might be a different place if more people knew their income rank. personal finance scolds may tut tut anyone spending their hard earned cash on a lottery ticket. but there is utility in the purchase that may be worth the cost. a distribution you don’t often get to see: the calorie counts of more than 3,000 meals at chipotle. the typical order had about 1,070 calories; one in 10 had more than 1,600. more charts deserve to stretch out in three dimensions. geolocation created a personal experience for readers wherever they lived. asking readers to draw charts in their web browsers was a first for the times. mining the times’s wedding announcements for evidence of a naming trend. what a presidential candidate’s tax plan has in common with six minute abs. comparisons across countries help show the rarity of gun deaths in advanced nations: in japan, being killed with a gun was as rare as death by lightning strike in the u.s. what one data point tells us about class, education, gender roles and caregiving in the united states. when new york’s zoning code turned 100 years old. “a growing body of evidence suggests that there is still a path, albeit a narrow one, for mr. trump to win without gains among nonwhite voters.” estimates of turnout and support for more than 8,000 different demographic groups. what foods are healthful? the results suggest a surprising diversity of opinion, even among experts. four pollsters received the same raw polling data, and gave four different overall estimates. the experiment revealed the many judgment calls that can influence a polling result. in 2016, one black trump supporter moved a national polling survey by a full percentage point despite being one of around 3,000 panelists. the new york times/siena college survey has earned a reputation for accuracy as well as transparency. what started as a small group project called the “live model” in 2014 is now a sprawling technical project known as “the needle.” an essential part of any election night. an interactive, season by season map of new york’s shadows. leif parsons it’s a goat on a bridge eating a flaming rug pulled from a collapsing sand castle! this article, of course, is about the affordable care act. we’re now more likely to tell our daughters they can be anything they want to be. but we don’t do the same for our sons. making preliminary estimates when the news dictates that you can’t wait for the release of official numbers. you could find an illustration of an increasingly winner take all economy by looking into a reporter’s closet. saw a cool chart on instagram; maybe we can make a crowdsourced version? from left: jason henry for the new york times; tony luong for the new york times in many companies across america, a position on the janitorial staff once came with a chance to climb the corporate ladder. but a focus on efficiency, while making companies more productive, has also limited opportunity and widened inequality. jordan siemens/getty images telling a story about the world from the changing perspective of search results for a stock photo of “woman.” case jernigan nearly anything can be compared and explained using a bracket   even international health care systems. are you a mini nepo baby? type in your job to find out. how will a new tax law affect me? this calculator had the answer. possibly the most technically complicated project the upshot has ever published. (is it due for another go?) ruth fremson/the new york times lots of upshot journalism is about collections   of people, ideas or even objects. here, we introduce you to an underappreciated segment of the work force: male nurses. an assignment to review a state’s new congressional maps the way a times food critic might review a new restaurant. one of our most memorable visualizations. in many companies across america, there were more men named john in positions of power than there were women with any name. an expanded update of a 2015 article on the same subject. a simple interactive slider helped explain the eruption of disagreement around a simple question: which word do you hear? an analysis of hundreds of thousands of race results and self reported shoe records found that these expensive running shoes really might make you run faster. a follow up article showed an even larger effect. as detailed as presidential election results get. four decades of data   depicted in maps and a histogram   showed that children could have diverging economic futures depending on the age when their mothers gave birth. how a localized recession in manufacturing heavy areas could explain a lot of things. mothers who are employed spend as much time with their children as stay at home mothers did in the 1970s. still a notable point: most democratic and progressive voices on social media are very liberal. most democratic voters are not. rodrigo corral as more women entered professions, employers began paying disproportionately more to people with round the clock availability. parents can be on call at work only if someone is on call at home. usually, that person is the mother. single family zoning is practically gospel in america, but a number of officials across the country are starting to make seemingly heretical moves. alex welsh for the new york times “it was dusk on the opening night of burning man, and the makers and misfits were touching up their art projects and orgy dens.” hitching a ride with paul romer, a noted student and scholar of cities. tim enthoven to understand the competing democratic health care plans, consider an elaborate home construction metaphor. a photographic depiction of a representative national survey, and also what barack obama called “a reminder that behind every opinion lies a human being with real experiences and a story to tell.” a bureaucratic mailing may have saved 700 lives. documenting the disaster that was the 2020 iowa democratic caucus. an early estimate of how common deaths from covid 19 might become. at the time, our figure seemed like a huge number. it turned out to be too low. it was a time when “deaths over expectation” became a more useful mortality metric than official death counts. this is one of many examples from that period of what appear to be broken looking charts. how many people left new york when the pandemic hit? a rough estimate: about 5 percent, overwhelmingly from the city’s richest neighborhoods. early in the pandemic, we created a survey asking epidemiologists about their own choices. they are not a risk taking group. the internet connoisseur and sleuth ashley feinberg called this, “frankly, the best and maybe only good thing the times has ever done,” perhaps the hottest take on the fridges. important reporting for american readers to wake up to the morning after the 2020 election, in an environment lacking many facts or certainty. if a nobel laureate in economics doesn’t know how to pick a health insurance plan, what hope do the rest of us have? what will historians make of this 100 years from now? it is more than 50,000 words long. testing readers’ preconceptions is an upshot pastime. millions of readers’ guesses revealed that, for the most part, those preconceptions were not very accurate in this case. an investigation revealed that hospitals were charging patients wildly different amounts for the same basic services. a relatively straightforward exercise and yet a very revealing one, with implications for a post roe america. in just over a decade, the tests have gone from laboratory experiments to an industry that serves more than a third of the pregnant women in america. distributions are usually more interesting than averages, especially when you’re a new yorker rooting for a big snowfall. eden weingart/the new york times when wordle first became popular, several people on the internet claimed, plausibly, that they had come up with the “best” opening word. enter wordlebot, which provides custom analysis of your wordle, every day, however you play. now many readers around the world don’t wordle without it. a 3 d animation showing how a pressure wave from a volcanic eruption circled the earth? yes, please. a visualization of how post roe abortion bans affected women’s access to legal abortion nationwide. lila barth the pandemic may have killed the suburban office park. the photographs have an apocalyptic feeling to them. an earnest attempt to put a number to an unanswerable question. yes, the chances are minuscule. but minuscule is not zero. how major health insurers exploited medicare to inflate their profits by billions of dollars. an accounting project of sorts, examining the president’s policy goals and congress’s successes in previously unreported detail. there are many ways to contemplate mr. brady’s age, but the best one may be to look outside the sports arena, comparing him with aging workers still going strong in other professions. budget forecasts are one thing; budget realities are another. (also an homage of sorts to a notable visualization in the “flash era” of interactive information graphics.) a simple problem: too much office space, not enough homes. why can’t you use one to solve the other? the answer includes regulations, logistics, light and even physics. if you flip a coin and call heads, and it comes up heads, you didn’t make a very good prediction, even if it was “right.” the same principle applies to race calls on election night. a daily interactive companion to spelling bee that helps you get to genius even if you don’t always feel like one. when chatgpt was still new, we showed that people were already using it in real life: to cook, plan and work. an interactive demonstration of how large language models work, from gibberish to complete sentences. years after lower wage residents were priced out of expensive coastal metro areas, higher paid workers are now turning away from them, too. our weekly history quiz is a playful mix of logic, news and historical inference. have you signed up for notifications yet? a deeper look at the groups making up the republican party of 2024. a perennial fan favorite: an interactive tool to help you follow your n.f.l. team’s playoff chances like an expert, complemented by our annual “playoff trees.” the dire predictions about the cost of health care   from politicians of both parties   simply haven’t materialized. the result is an enormous savings to the federal budget, on the order of 161 years of nasa spending. created with love for the city, and it shows. readers adored it. we hope these tactics will give you a leg up if you ever find yourself on the show   or just a sense of superiority when you’re watching at home. (to test them out, play a few “wheel” rounds.) an analysis of millions of records from the national highway traffic safety administration revealed a previously unknown cause of pedestrian deaths in the united states: the setting sun. this was a favorite of readers. one said: “this is one of those brilliant rare ish articles that is going to live forever. it is such a delightful, warm and sophisticated presentation of data about an element of contemporary popular culture.” it was part of a tradition of upshot holiday journalism. desean mcclinton holland many new yorkers have trained their eyes to unsee the great piles of trash that abound. this article lets them see the problem   and potential solutions   with fresh eyes. a crystal clear visualization of attendance trends. erin schaff/the new york times we think of the upshot as a place where back of the envelope calculations can be both helpful and welcome. this article, which started with simple estimates on a piece of scratch paper derived from newton’s laws of motion, embodies both the spirit and the letter of that idea. by far the best story the upshot has ever published about the possibility of sawing off your finger (and, by extension, the intersection of monopolies, patents and policy). designed and produced by josh katz and shannon lin

sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention.[1] since the introduction of movable type printing in europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a latin alphabet.[2] these include a normal word space (as between the words in a sentence), a single enlarged space, and two full spaces. until the 20th century, publishing houses and printers in many countries used additional space between sentences. there were exceptions to this traditional spacing method some printers used spacing between sentences that was no wider than word spacing. this was french spacing a term synonymous with single space sentence spacing until the late 20th century.[3] with the introduction of the typewriter in the late 19th century, typists used two spaces between sentences to mimic the style used by traditional typesetters.[4] while wide sentence spacing was phased out in the printing industry in the mid 20th century, the practice continued on typewriters[5] and later on computers.[6] perhaps because of this, many modern sources now incorrectly[7] claim that wide spacing was created for the typewriter.[8] the desired or correct sentence spacing is often debated, but most sources now state that an additional space is not necessary or desirable.[9] from around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in books, magazines, and newspapers,[10] and the majority of style guides that use a latin derived alphabet as a language base now prescribe or recommend the use of a single space after the concluding punctuation of a sentence.[11] however, some sources still state that additional spacing is correct or acceptable.[7] some people preferred double sentence spacing because that was how they were taught to type.[12] the few direct studies conducted since 2002 have produced inconclusive results as to which convention is more readable.[13] shortly after the invention of movable type, highly variable spacing was created, which could create spaces of any size and allowed for perfectly even justification.[14] early american, english, and other european typesetters' style guides (also known as printers' rules) specified spacing standards that were all essentially identical from the 18th century onwards. these guides e.g., jacobi in the u.k. (1890)[15] and mackellar, harpel, and de vinne (1866 1901) in the u.s.[16] indicated that sentences should be em spaced, and that words should be 1/3 or 1/2 em spaced. the relative size of the sentence spacing would vary depending on the size of the word spaces and the justification needs.[17] for most countries, this remained the standard for published work until the 20th century.[18] yet, even in this period, there were publishing houses that used a standard word space between sentences.[7] mechanical type systems introduced near the end of the 19th century, such as the linotype and monotype machines, allowed for some variable sentence spacing similar to hand composition.[19] just as these machines revolutionized the mass production of text, the advent of the typewriter around the same time revolutionized the creation of personal and business documents. but the typewriters' mechanical limitations did not allow variable spacing typists could only choose the number of times they pressed the space bar. typists in some english speaking countries initially learned to insert three spaces between sentences[20] to approximate the wider sentence spacing used in traditional printing, but later settled on two spaces,[21] a practice that continued throughout the 20th century.[4] this became known as english spacing and marked a divergence from french typists, who continued to use french spacing.[22] in the early 20th century, some printers began using one and a half interword spaces (an "en quad") to separate sentences.[23] this standard continued in use, to some extent, into the 1990s.[24] magazines, newspapers, and books began to adopt the single space convention in the united states in the 1940s and in the united kingdom in the 1950s.[25] typists did not move to single spacing simultaneously.[5] technological advances began affecting sentence spacing methods. in 1941, ibm introduced the executive, a typewriter capable of proportional spacing,[26] which had been used in professional typesetting for hundreds of years. this innovation broke the hold that the monospaced font had on the typewriter, reducing the severity of its mechanical limitations.[26] however, this innovation did not spread throughout the typewriter industry; the majority of mechanical typewriters, including all of the widely distributed models, remained monospaced, while a small minority of special models carried the innovations. by the 1960s, electronic phototypesetting systems ignored runs of white space in text.[7] this was also true for the world wide web, as html normally ignores additional spacing,[27][28] although in 2011 the css 2.1 standard officially added an option that can preserve additional spaces.[29] in the 1980s, desktop publishing software provided the average writer with more advanced formatting tools.[30] early positions on typography (the "arrangement and appearance of text")[31] supported traditional spacing techniques in english publications. in 1954, geoffrey dowding's book finer points in the spacing and arrangement of type underscored the widespread shift from a single enlarged em space to a standard word space between sentences.[32] with the advent of the computer age, typographers began deprecating double spacing, even in monospaced text. in 1989, desktop publishing by design stated that "typesetting requires only one space after periods, question marks, exclamation points, and colons" and identified single sentence spacing as a typographic convention.[33] stop stealing sheep & find out how type works (1993) and designing with type: the essential guide to typography (2006) both indicate that uniform spacing should be used between words, including between sentences.[34] more recent works on typography weigh in strongly. ilene strizver, founder of the type studio, says: "forget about tolerating differences of opinion: typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong."[12] the complete manual on typography (2003) states that "the typewriter tradition of separating sentences with two word spaces after a period has no place in typesetting" and that the single space is "standard typographic practice".[35] the elements of typographic style (2004) advocates a single space between sentences, noting that "your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint [double spacing] victorian habit".[4] david jury's book about face: reviving the rules of typography (2004) published in switzerland clarifies the contemporary typographic position on sentence spacing:[36] word spaces, preceding or following punctuation, should be optically adjusted to appear to be of the same value as a standard word space. if a standard word space is inserted after a full point or a comma, then, optically, this produces a space of up to 50% wider than that of other word spaces within a line of type. this is because these punctuation marks carry space above them, which, when added to the adjacent standard word spaces, combines to create a visually larger space. some argue that the "additional" space after a comma and full point serves as a "pause signal" for the reader. but this is unnecessary (and visually disruptive) since the pause signal is provided by the punctuation mark itself. early style guides for typesetting used a wider space between sentences than between words "traditional spacing", as shown in the illustration to the right.[37] during the 20th century, style guides commonly mandated two spaces between sentences for typewritten manuscripts, which were used prior to professionally typesetting the work.[38] as computer desktop publishing became commonplace, typewritten manuscripts became less relevant and most style guides stopped making distinctions between manuscripts and final typeset products.[39] in the same period, style guides began changing their guidance on sentence spacing. the 1969 edition of the chicago manual of style used em spaces between sentences in its text;[40] by the 2003 edition it had changed to single sentence spacing for both manuscript and print. by the 1980s, the united kingdom's hart's rules (1983)[41] had shifted to single sentence spacing. other style guides followed suit in the 1990s.[42] soon after the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of style guides had changed to indicate that only one word space was proper between sentences.[43] modern style guides provide standards and guidance for the written language. these works are important to writers, since "virtually all professional editors work closely with one of them in editing a manuscript for publication".[44] late editions of comprehensive style guides, such as the oxford style manual (2003)[45] in the united kingdom and the chicago manual of style (2010)[46] in the united states, provide standards for a wide variety of writing and design topics, including sentence spacing.[47] the majority of style guides now prescribe the use of a single space after terminal punctuation in final written works and publications.[43] a few style guides allow double sentence spacing for draft work, and the gregg reference manual makes room for double and single sentence spacing based on author preferences.[48] web design guides do not usually provide guidance on this topic, as "html refuses to recognize double spaces altogether".[49] these works themselves follow the current publication standard of single sentence spacing.[50] the european union's interinstitutional style guide (2008) indicates that single sentence spacing is to be used in all european union publications encompassing 23 languages.[51] for the english language, the european commission's english style guide (2010) states that sentences are always single spaced.[52] the style manual: for authors, editors and printers (2007), first published in 1966 by the commonwealth government printing office of australia, stipulates that only one space is used after "sentence closing punctuation" and that "programs for word processing and desktop publishing offer more sophisticated, variable spacing, so this practice of double spacing is now avoided because it can create distracting gaps on a page."[53] national languages not covered by an authoritative language academy typically have multiple style guides, only some of which may discuss sentence spacing. this is the case in the united kingdom. the oxford style manual (2003) and the modern humanities research association's mhra style guide (2002) state that only single spacing should be used.[54] in canada, both the english  and french language sections of the canadian style, a guide to writing and editing (1997), prescribe single sentence spacing.[55] in the united states, many style guides such as the chicago manual of style (2003) allow only single sentence spacing.[56] the most important style guide in italy, il nuovo manuale di stile (2009), does not address sentence spacing,[57] but the guida di stile italiano (2010), the official guide for microsoft translation, tells users to use single sentence spacing "instead of the double spacing used in the united states".[58] some languages, such as french and spanish, have academies that set language rules. their publications typically address orthography and grammar as opposed to matters of typography. style guides are less relevant for such languages, as their academies set prescriptive rules. for example, the académie française publishes the dictionnaire de l'académie française for french speakers worldwide.[59] the 1992 edition does not provide guidance on sentence spacing, but is single sentence spaced throughout consistent with historical french spacing. the spanish language is similar. the most important body within the association of spanish language academies, the royal spanish academy, publishes the diccionario de la lengua española, which is viewed as prescriptive for the spanish language worldwide.[60] the 2001 edition does not provide sentence spacing guidance, but is itself single sentence spaced. the german language manual empfehlungen des rats für deutsche rechtschreibung ("recommendations of the council for german orthography"; 2006) does not address sentence spacing.[61] the manual itself uses one space after terminal punctuation. additionally, the duden, the german language dictionary most commonly used in germany,[62] indicates that double sentence spacing is an error.[63] a few reference grammars address sentence spacing, as increased spacing between words is punctuation in itself.[64] most do not. grammar guides typically cover terminal punctuation and the proper construction of sentences but not the spacing between sentences.[65] moreover, many modern grammar guides are designed for quick reference[66] and refer users to comprehensive style guides for additional matters of writing style.[67] for example, the pocket idiot's guide to grammar and punctuation (2005) points users to style guides such as the mla style manual for consistency in formatting work and for all other "editorial concerns".[68] the grammar bible (2004) states that "the modern system of english punctuation is by no means simple. a book that covers all the bases would need to be of considerable breadth and weight and anyone interested in such a resource is advised to consult the chicago manual of style."[69] in the computer era, spacing between sentences is handled in several different ways by various software packages. some systems accept whatever the user types, while others attempt to alter the spacing or use the user input as a method of detecting sentences. computer based word processors and typesetting software such as troff and tex allow users to arrange text in a manner previously only available to professional typesetters.[70] the text editing environment in emacs by default uses a double space following a period to identify the end of sentences unambiguously; the double space convention prevents confusion with periods within sentences that signify abbreviations. how emacs recognizes the end of a sentence is controlled by the settings sentence end double space and sentence end.[71] the unix typesetter program troff uses two spaces to mark the end of a sentence.[72] this allows the typesetter to distinguish sentence endings from abbreviations and to typeset them differently. early versions of troff,[72] which only typeset in fixed width fonts, would automatically add a second space between sentences, which were detected based on the combination of terminal punctuation and a line feed. in the april 2020 update, microsoft word started highlighting two spaces after a period as an error and offers a correction of one space.[73] multiple spaces are eliminated by default in most world wide web content, whether or not they are associated with sentences.[27][28] there are options for preserving spacing, such as the css white space property,[29] and the <pre> tag.[74] james felici, author of the complete manual of typography, says that the topic of sentence spacing is "the debate that refuses to die … in all my years of writing about type, it's still the question i hear most often, and a search of the web will find threads galore on the subject".[7] many people are opposed to single sentence spacing for various reasons. some state that the habit of double spacing is too deeply ingrained to change.[75] others claim that additional space between sentences improves the aesthetics or readability of text.[76] proponents of double sentence spacing also state that some publishers may still require double spaced manuscript submissions from authors. a key example noted is the screenwriting industry's monospaced standard for screenplay manuscripts, courier, 12 point font,[77] although some works on screenwriting indicate that courier is merely preferred proportional fonts may be used.[78] some reliable sources state simply that writers should follow their particular style guide, but proponents of double spacing caution that publishers' guidance takes precedence, including those that ask for double sentence spaced manuscripts.[79] one of the most popular arguments against wider sentence spacing is that it was created for monospaced fonts of the typewriter and is no longer needed with modern proportional fonts.[80] however, proportional fonts existed together with wide sentence spacing for centuries before the typewriter and remained for decades after its invention. when the typewriter was first introduced, typists were most commonly taught to use three spaces between sentences.[20] this gradually shifted to two spaces, while the print industry remained unchanged in its wide em spaced sentences. some sources now state it is acceptable for monospaced fonts to be single spaced today,[81] although other references continue to specify double spacing for monospaced fonts.[82] the double space typewriter convention has been taught in schools in typing classes and remains the practice in many cases.[12] some voice concern that students will later be forced to relearn how to type.[83] most style guides indicate that single sentence spacing is proper for final or published work today,[43] and most publishers require manuscripts to be submitted as they will appear in publication with single sentence spacing.[84] writing sources typically recommend that prospective authors remove extra spaces before submitting manuscripts,[85] although other sources state that publishers will use software to remove the spaces before final publication.[86] claims abound regarding the legibility and readability of the single and double sentence spacing methods by proponents on both sides. supporters of single spacing assert that familiarity with the current standard in books, magazines, and the web enhances readability, that double spacing looks strange in text using proportional fonts, and that the "rivers" and "holes" caused by double spacing impair readability.[87] proponents of double sentence spacing state that the extra space between sentences enhances readability by providing clearer breaks between sentences and making text appear more legible.[88] however, typographic opinions are typically anecdotal with no basis in evidence.[89] "opinions are not always safe guides to legibility of print",[90] and when direct studies are conducted, anecdotal opinions even those of experts can turn out to be false.[91] text that seems legible (visually pleasing at first glance) may be shown to actually impair reading effectiveness when subjected to scientific study.[92] direct studies on sentence spacing include those by loh, branch, shewanown, and ali (2002);[93] and clinton, branch, holschuh, and shewanown (2003);[94] with results favoring neither single, double, nor triple spacing.[95] the 2002 study tested participants' reading speed for passages of on screen text with single and double sentence spacing. the authors stated that "the 'double space group' consistently took longer time to finish than the 'single space' group" but concluded that "there was not enough evidence to suggest that a significant difference exists".[96] the 2003 study analyzed on screen single, double, and triple spacing. in both cases, the authors stated that there was insufficient evidence to draw a conclusion.[97] ni, branch, chen, and clinton conducted a similar study in 2009 using identical spacing variables. the authors concluded that the "results provided insufficient evidence that time and comprehension differ significantly among different conditions of spacing between sentences".[98] a 2018 study of 60 students found that those who used two word spaces between sentences read the same text 3% faster than with a monospaced font (courier new).[99] there are other studies that could be relevant to sentence spacing,[100] such as the familiarity of typographic conventions on readability. some studies indicate that "tradition" can increase the readability of text,[101] and that reading is disrupted when conventional printing arrangements are disrupted or violated.[102] the standard for the web and published books, magazines, and newspapers is single sentence spacing.[103] david jury's book what is typography? notes, "changes in spacing either between letters and words, or between the words only … do not appear to affect legibility. [these rather extraordinary conclusions are contrary to all other surveys on readability of texts.]"[104] a widespread observation is that increased sentence spacing creates "rivers"[105] or "holes"[106] within text, making it visually unattractive, distracting, and difficult to locate the end of sentences.[107] comprehensive works on typography describe the negative effect on readability caused by inconsistent spacing,[108] which is supported in a 1981 study which found that "comprehension was significantly less accurate with the river condition".[109] another 1981 study on cathode ray tube (crt) displays concluded that "more densely packed text is read more efficiently … than is more loosely packed text".[110] this statement is supported in other works as well.[108] canadian typographer geoffrey dowding suggests possible explanations of this phenomenon: a carefully composed text page appears as an orderly series of strips of black separated by horizontal channels of white space. conversely, in a slovenly setting the tendency is for the page to appear as a grey and muddled pattern of isolated spats, this effect being caused by the over widely separated words. the normal, easy, left to right movement of the eye is slowed down simply because of this separation; further, the short letters and serifs are unable to discharge an important function   that of keeping the eye on "the line". the eye also tends to be confused by a feeling of vertical emphasis, that is, an up & down movement, induced by the relative isolation of the words & consequent insistence of the ascending and descending letters. this movement is further emphasized by those "rivers" of white which are the inseparable & ugly accompaniment of all carelessly set text matter.[111] some studies suggest that readability can be improved by breaking sentences into separate units of thought or varying the internal spacing of sentences. mid 20th century research on this topic resulted in inconclusive findings.[112] a 1980 study split sentences into 1 5 word phrases with additional spacing between segments. the study concluded that there was no significant difference in efficacy, but that a wider study was needed.[113] numerous other similar studies in 1951 1991 resulted in disparate and inconclusive findings.[114] finally, although various studies have been conducted on the readability of proportional vs. monospaced fonts, the studies typically did not decrease sentence spacing when using proportional fonts, or did not specify whether sentence spacing was changed.[115]

the times was founded as the conservative new york daily times in 1851, and came to national recognition in the 1870s with its aggressive coverage of corrupt politician william m. tweed. following the panic of 1893, chattanooga times publisher adolph ochs gained a controlling interest in the company. in 1935, ochs was succeeded by his son in law, arthur hays sulzberger, who began a push into european news. sulzberger's son in law arthur ochs became publisher in 1963, adapting to a changing newspaper industry and introducing radical changes. the new york times was involved in the landmark 1964 u.s. supreme court case new york times co. v. sullivan, which restricted the ability of public officials to sue the media for defamation. in 1971, the new york times published the pentagon papers, an internal department of defense document detailing the united states's historical involvement in the vietnam war, despite pushback from then president richard nixon. in the landmark decision new york times co. v. united states (1971), the supreme court ruled that the first amendment guaranteed the right to publish the pentagon papers. in the 1980s, the times began a two decade progression to digital technology and launched nytimes.com in 1996. in the 21st century, the new york times has shifted its publication online amid the global decline of newspapers. the times has expanded to several other publications, including the new york times magazine, the new york times international edition, and the new york times book review. in addition, the paper has produced several television series, podcasts   including the daily   and games through the new york times games. the new york times has been involved in several controversies in its history. the times maintains several regional bureaus staffed with journalists across six continents, and has received 137 pulitzer prizes as of 2023, the most of any publication, among other accolades. the new york times was established in 1851 by new york tribune journalists henry jarvis raymond and george jones.[4] the times experienced significant circulation, particularly among conservatives; new york tribune publisher horace greeley praised the new york daily times.[5] during the american civil war, times correspondents gathered information directly from confederate states.[6] in 1869, jones inherited the paper from raymond,[7] who had changed its name to the new york times.[8] under jones, the times began to publish a series of articles criticizing tammany hall political boss william m. tweed, despite vehement opposition from other new york newspapers.[9] in 1871, the new york times published tammany hall's accounting books; tweed was tried in 1873 and sentenced to twelve years in prison. the times earned national recognition for its coverage of tweed.[10] in 1891, jones died, creating a management imbroglio in which his children had insufficient business acumen to inherit the company and his will prevented an acquisition of the times.[11] editor in chief charles ransom miller, editorial editor edward cary, and correspondent george f. spinney established a company to manage the new york times,[12] but faced financial difficulties during the panic of 1893.[13] in august 1896, chattanooga times publisher adolph ochs acquired the new york times, implementing significant alterations to the newspaper's structure. ochs established the times as a merchant's newspaper and removed the hyphen from the newspaper's name.[14] in 1905, the new york times opened times tower, marking expansion.[15] the times experienced a political realignment in the 1910s amid several disagreements within the republican party.[16] the new york times reported on the sinking of the titanic, as other newspapers were cautious about bulletins circulated by the associated press.[17] through managing editor carr van anda, the times focused on scientific advancements, reporting on albert einstein's then unknown theory of general relativity and becoming involved in the discovery of the tomb of tutankhamun.[18] in april 1935, ochs died, leaving his son in law arthur hays sulzberger as publisher.[19] the great depression forced sulzberger to reduce the new york times's operations,[20] and developments in the new york newspaper landscape resulted in the formation of larger newspapers, such as the new york herald tribune and the new york world telegram.[21] in contrast to ochs, sulzberger encouraged wirephotography.[22] the new york times extensively covered world war ii through large headlines,[23] reporting on exclusive stories such as the yugoslav coup d'état.[24] amid the war, sulzberger began expanding the times's operations further, acquiring wqxr fm in 1944   the first non times investment since the jones era   and established a fashion show in times hall. despite reductions as a result of conscription, the new york times retained the largest journalism staff of any newspaper.[25] the times's print edition became available internationally during the war through the army & air force exchange service; the new york times overseas weekly later became available in japan through the asahi shimbun and in germany through the frankfurter zeitung. the international edition would develop into a separate newspaper.[26] journalist william l. laurence publicized the atomic bomb race between the united states and germany, resulting in the federal bureau of investigation seizing copies of the times. the united states government recruited laurence to document the manhattan project in april 1945.[27] laurence became the only witness of the manhattan project, a detail realized by employees of the new york times following the atomic bombing of hiroshima.[28] following world war ii, the new york times continued to expand.[29] the times was subject to investigations from the senate internal security subcommittee, a mccarthyist subcommittee that investigated purported communism from within press institutions. arthur hays sulzberger's decision to dismiss a copyreader who had pleaded the fifth amendment drew ire from within the times and from external organizations.[30] in april 1961, sulzberger resigned, appointing his son in law, the new york times company president orvil dryfoos.[31] under dryfoos, the new york times established a newspaper based in los angeles.[32] in 1962, the implementation of automated printing presses in response to increasing costs mounted fears over technological unemployment. the new york typographical union staged a strike in december, altering the media consumption of new yorkers. the strike left new york with three remaining newspapers   the times, the daily news, and the new york post   by its conclusion in march 1963.[33] in may, dryfoos died of a heart ailment.[34] following weeks of ambiguity, arthur ochs sulzberger became the new york times's publisher.[35] technological advancements leveraged by newspapers such as the los angeles times and improvements in coverage from the washington post and the wall street journal necessitated adaptations to nascent computing.[36] the new york times published "heed their rising voices" in 1960, a full page advertisement purchased by supporters of martin luther king jr. criticizing law enforcement in montgomery, alabama for their response to the civil rights movement. montgomery public safety commissioner l. b. sullivan sued the times for defamation. in new york times co. v. sullivan (1964), the u.s. supreme court ruled that the verdict in alabama county court and the supreme court of alabama violated the first amendment.[37] the decision is considered to be landmark.[38] after financial losses, the new york times ended its international edition, acquiring a stake in the paris herald tribune, forming the international herald tribune.[39] the times initially published the pentagon papers, facing opposition from then president richard nixon. the supreme court ruled in the new york times's favor in new york times co. v. united states (1971), allowing the times and the washington post to publish the papers.[40] the new york times remained cautious in its initial coverage of the watergate scandal.[41] as congress began investigating the scandal, the times furthered its coverage,[42] publishing details on the huston plan, alleged wiretapping of reporters and officials,[43] and testimony from james w. mccord jr. that the committee for the re election of the president paid the conspirators off.[44] the exodus of readers to suburban new york newspapers, such as newsday and gannett papers, adversely affected the new york times's circulation.[45] contemporary newspapers balked at additional sections; time devoted a cover for its criticism and new york wrote that the times was engaging in "middle class self absorption".[46] the new york times, the daily news, and the new york post were the subject of a strike in 1978,[47] allowing emerging newspapers to leverage halted coverage.[48] the times deliberately avoided coverage of the aids epidemic, running its first front page article in may 1983. max frankel's editorial coverage of the epidemic, with mentions of anal intercourse, contrasted with then executive editor a. m. rosenthal's puritan approach, intentionally avoiding descriptions of the luridity of gay venues.[49] following years of waning interest in the new york times, sulzberger resigned in january 1992, appointing his son, arthur ochs sulzberger jr., as publisher.[50] the internet represented a generational shift within the times; sulzberger, who negotiated the new york times company's acquisition of the boston globe in 1993, derided the internet, while his son expressed antithetical views. @times appeared on america online's website in may 1994 as an extension of the new york times, featuring news articles, film reviews, sports news, and business articles.[51] despite opposition, several employees of the times had begun to access the internet.[52] the online success of publications that traditionally co existed with the times   such as america online, yahoo, and cnn   and the expansion of websites such as monster.com and craigslist that threatened the new york times's classified advertisement model increased efforts to develop a website.[53] nytimes.com debuted on january 19 and was formally announced three days later.[54] the times published domestic terrorist ted kaczynski's essay industrial society and its future in 1995, contributing to his arrest after his brother david recognized the essay's penmanship.[55] following the establishment of nytimes.com, the new york times retained its journalistic hesitancy under executive editor joseph lelyveld, refusing to publish an article reporting on the clinton lewinsky scandal from drudge report. nytimes.com editors conflicted with print editors on several occasions, including wrongfully naming security guard richard jewell as the suspect in the centennial olympic park bombing and covering the death of diana, princess of wales in greater detail than the print edition.[56] the new york times electronic media company was adversely affected by the dot com crash.[57] the times extensively covered the september 11 attacks. the following day's print issue contained sixty six articles,[58] the work of over three hundred dispatched reporters.[59] journalist judith miller was the recipient of a package containing a white powder during the 2001 anthrax attacks, furthering anxiety within the new york times.[60] in september 2002, miller and military correspondent michael r. gordon wrote an article for the times claiming that iraq had purchased aluminum tubes. the article was cited by then president george w. bush to claim that iraq was constructing weapons of mass destruction; the theoretical use of aluminum tubes to produce nuclear material was speculation.[61] in march 2003, the united states invaded iraq, beginning the iraq war.[62] the new york times attracted controversy after thirty six articles[63] from journalist jayson blair were discovered to be plagiarized.[64] criticism over then executive editor howell raines and then managing editor gerald m. boyd mounted following the scandal, culminating in a town hall in which a deputy editor criticized raines for failing to question blair's sources in article he wrote on the d.c. sniper attacks.[65] in june 2003, raines and boyd resigned.[66] arthur ochs sulzberger jr. appointed bill keller as executive editor.[67] miller continued to report on the iraq war as a journalistic embed covering the country's weapons of mass destruction program. keller and then washington bureau chief jill abramson unsuccessfully attempted to subside criticism. conservative media criticized the times over its coverage of missing explosives from the al qa'qaa weapons facility.[68] an article in december 2005 disclosing warrantless surveillance by the national security agency contributed to further criticism from the george w. bush administration and the senate's refusal to renew the patriot act.[69] in the plame affair, a central intelligence agency inquiry found that miller had become aware of valerie plame's identity through then vice president dick cheney's chief of staff scooter libby, resulting in miller's resignation.[70] during the great recession, the new york times suffered significant fiscal difficulties as a consequence of the subprime mortgage crisis and a decline in classified advertising.[71] exacerbated by rupert murdoch's revitalization of the wall street journal through his acquisition of dow jones & company, the new york times company began enacting measures to reduce the newsroom budget. the company was forced to borrow $250 million (equivalent to $353.79 million in 2023) from mexican billionaire carlos slim and fired over one hundred employees by 2010.[72] nytimes.com's coverage of the eliot spitzer prostitution scandal, resulting in the resignation of then new york governor eliot spitzer, furthered the legitimacy of the website as a journalistic medium.[73] the times's economic downturn renewed discussions of an online paywall;[74] the new york times implemented a paywall in march 2011.[75] abramson succeeded keller,[76] continuing her characteristic investigations into corporate and government malfeasance into the times's coverage.[77] following conflicts with newly appointed chief executive mark thompson's ambitions,[78] abramson was dismissed by sulzberger jr., who named dean baquet as her replacement.[79] leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the new york times elevated the hillary clinton email controversy[80] into the single most important issue during the election campaign.[81][82][83] donald trump's upset victory contributed to an increase in subscriptions to the times.[84] the new york times experienced unprecedented indignation from trump, who referred to publications such as the times as "enemies of the people" at the conservative political action conference and tweeted his disdain for the newspaper and cnn.[85] in october 2017, the new york times published an article by journalists jodi kantor and megan twohey alleging that dozens of women had accused film producer and the weinstein company co chairman harvey weinstein of sexual misconduct.[86] the investigation resulted in weinstein's resignation and conviction,[87] precipitated the weinstein effect,[88] and served as a catalyst for the #metoo movement.[89] the new york times company vacated the public editor position[90] and eliminated the copy desk in november.[91] sulzberger jr. announced his resignation in december 2017, appointing his son, a. g. sulzberger, as publisher.[92] trump's relationship   equally diplomatic and negative   marked sulzberger's tenure.[93] in september 2018, the new york times published "i am part of the resistance inside the trump administration", an anonymous essay by a self described trump administration official later revealed to be department of homeland security chief of staff miles taylor.[94] the animosity   which extended to nearly three hundred instances of trump disparaging the times by may 2019[95]   culminated in trump ordering federal agencies to cancel their subscriptions to the new york times and the washington post in october 2019.[96] trump's tax returns have been the subject of three separate investigations.[c] during the covid 19 pandemic, the times began implementing data services and graphs.[100] on may 23, 2020, the new york times's front page solely featured u.s. deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss, a subset of the 100,000 people in the united states who died of covid 19, the first time that the times's front page lacked images since they were introduced.[101] since 2020, the new york times has focused on broader diversification, developing online games and producing television series.[102] the new york times company acquired the athletic in january 2022.[103] since 1896, the new york times has been published by the ochs sulzberger family, having previously been published by henry jarvis raymond until 1869[104] and by george jones until 1896.[105] adolph ochs published the times until his death in 1935,[106] when he was succeeded by his son in law, arthur hays sulzberger. sulzberger was publisher until 1961[107] and was succeeded by orvil dryfoos, his son in law, who served in the position until his death in 1963.[108] arthur ochs sulzberger succeeded dryfoos until his resignation in 1992.[109] his son, arthur ochs sulzberger jr., served as publisher until 2018. the new york times's current publisher is a. g. sulzberger, sulzberger jr.'s son.[92] as of 2023, the times's executive editor is joseph kahn[110] and the paper's managing editors are marc lacey and carolyn ryan, having been appointed in june 2022.[111] the new york times's deputy managing editors are sam dolnick,[112] monica drake,[113] and steve duenes,[114] and the paper's assistant managing editors are matthew ericson,[115] jonathan galinsky, hannah poferl, sam sifton, karron skog,[116] and michael slackman.[117] the new york times is owned by the new york times company, a publicly traded company. the new york times company, in addition to the times, owns wirecutter, the athletic, the new york times cooking, and the new york times games, and acquired serial productions and audm. the new york times company holds undisclosed minority investments in multiple other businesses, and formerly owned the boston globe and several radio and television stations.[118] the new york times company is majority owned by the ochs sulzberger family through elevated shares in the company's dual class stock structure held largely in a trust, in effect since the 1950s;[119] as of 2022, the family holds ninety five percent of the new york times company's class b shares, allowing it to elect seventy percent of the company's board of directors.[120] class a shareholders have restrictive voting rights.[121] as of 2023, the new york times company's chief executive is meredith kopit levien, the company's former chief operating officer who was appointed in september 2020.[122] as of march 2023, the new york times company employs 5,800 individuals,[102] including 1,700 journalists according to deputy managing editor sam dolnick.[123] journalists for the new york times may not run for public office, provide financial support to political candidates or causes, endorse candidates, or demonstrate public support for causes or movements.[124] journalists are subject to the guidelines established in "ethical journalism" and "guidelines on integrity".[125] according to the former, times journalists must abstain from using sources with a personal relationship to them and must not accept reimbursements or inducements from individuals who may be written about in the new york times, with exceptions for gifts of nominal value.[126] the latter requires attribution and exact quotations, though exceptions are made for linguistic anomalies. staff writers are expected to ensure the veracity of all written claims, but may delegate researching obscure facts to the research desk.[127] in march 2021, the times established a committee to avoid journalistic conflicts of interest with work written for the new york times, following columnist david brooks's resignation from the aspen institute for his undisclosed work on the initiative weave.[128] the new york times editorial board was established in 1896 by adolph ochs. with the opinion department, the editorial board is independent of the newsroom.[168] then editor in chief charles ransom miller served as opinion editor from 1883 until his death in 1922.[169] rollo ogden succeeded miller until his death in 1937.[170] from 1937 to 1938, john huston finley served as opinion editor; in a prearranged plan, charles merz succeeded finley.[171] merz served in the position until his retirement in 1961.[172] john bertram oakes served as opinion editor from 1961 to 1976, when then publisher arthur ochs sulzberger appointed max frankel.[173] frankel served in the position until 1986, when he was appointed as executive editor.[174] jack rosenthal was the opinion editor from 1986 to 1993.[175] howell raines succeeded rosenthal until 2001, when he was made executive editor.[176] gail collins succeeded raines until her resignation in 2006.[177] from 2007 to 2016, andrew rosenthal was the opinion editor.[178] james bennet succeeded rosenthal until his resignation in 2020.[179] as of july 2024[update], the editorial board comprises thirteen opinion writers.[180] the new york times's opinion editor is kathleen kingsbury[181] and the deputy opinion editor is patrick healy.[116] the new york times's editorial board was initially opposed to liberal beliefs, opposing women's suffrage in 1900 and 1914. the editorial board began to espouse progressive beliefs during oakes' tenure, conflicting with the ochs sulzberger family, of which oakes was a member as adolph ochs's nephew; in 1976, oakes publicly disagreed with sulzberger's endorsement of daniel patrick moynihan over bella abzug in the 1976 senate democratic primaries in a letter sent from martha's vineyard. under rosenthal, the editorial board took positions supporting assault weapons legislation and the legalization of marijuana, but publicly criticized the obama administration over its portrayal of terrorism.[178] in presidential elections, the new york times has endorsed a total of twelve republican candidates and thirty two democratic candidates, and has endorsed the democrat in every election since 1960.[182][183][j] with the exception of wendell willkie, republicans endorsed by the times have won the presidency. in 2016, the editorial board issued an anti endorsement against donald trump for the first time in its history.[184] in february 2020, the editorial board reduced its presence from several editorials each day to occasional editorials for events deemed particularly significant. since august 2024, the board no longer endorses candidates in local or congressional races in new york.[185] since 1940, editorial, media, and technology workers of the new york times have been represented by the new york times guild. the times guild, along with the times tech guild, are represented by the newsguild cwa.[186] in 1940, arthur hays sulzberger was called upon by the national labor relations board amid accusations that he had discouraged guild membership in the times. over the next few years, the guild would ratify several contracts, expanding to editorial and news staff in 1942 and maintenance workers in 1943.[187] the new york times guild has walked out several times in its history, including for six and a half hours in 1981[188] and in 2017, when copy editors and reporters walked out at lunchtime in response to the elimination of the copy desk.[189] on december 7, 2022, the union held a one day strike,[190] the first interruption to the new york times since 1978.[191] the new york times guild reached an agreement in may 2023 to increase minimum salaries for employees and a retroactive bonus.[192] the times tech guild is the largest technology union with collective bargaining rights in the united states.[193] the guild held a second strike beginning on november 4, 2024, threatening the times's coverage of the 2024 united states presidential election.[194] in october 2001, the new york times began publishing dealbook, a financial newsletter edited by andrew ross sorkin. the times had intended to publish the newsletter in september, but delayed its debut following the september 11 attacks.[200] a website for dealbook was established in march 2006.[201] the new york times began shifting towards dealbook as part of the newspaper's financial coverage in november 2010 with a renewed website and a presence in the times's print edition.[202] in 2011, the times began hosting the dealbook summit, an annual conference hosted by sorkin.[203] during the covid 19 pandemic, the new york times hosted the dealbook online summit in 2020[204] and 2021.[205] the 2022 dealbook summit featured   among other speakers   former vice president mike pence and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu,[206] culminating in an interview with former ftx chief executive sam bankman fried; ftx had filed for bankruptcy several weeks prior.[207] the 2023 dealbook summit's speakers included vice president kamala harris, israeli president isaac herzog, and businessman elon musk.[203] in june 2010, the new york times licensed the political blog fivethirtyeight in a three year agreement.[208] the blog, written by nate silver, had garnered attention during the 2008 presidential election for predicting the elections in forty nine of fifty states. fivethirtyeight appeared on nytimes.com in august.[209] according to silver, several offers were made for the blog; silver wrote that a merger of unequals must allow for editorial sovereignty and resources from the acquirer, comparing himself to groucho marx.[210] according to the new republic, fivethirtyeight drew as much as a fifth of the traffic to nytimes.com during the 2012 presidential election.[211] in july 2013, fivethirtyeight was sold to espn.[212] in an article following silver's exit, public editor margaret sullivan wrote that he was disruptive to the times's culture for his perspective on probability based predictions and scorn for polling   having stated that punditry is "fundamentally useless", comparing him to billy beane, who implemented sabermetrics in baseball. according to sullivan, his work was criticized by several notable political journalists.[213] the new republic obtained a memo in november 2013 revealing then washington bureau chief david leonhardt's ambitions to establish a data driven newsletter with presidential historian michael beschloss, graphic designer amanda cox, economist justin wolfers, and the new republic journalist nate cohn.[214] by march, leonhardt had amassed fifteen employees from within the new york times; the newsletter's staff included individuals who had created the times's dialect quiz, fourth down analyzer, and a calculator for determining buying or renting a home.[215] the upshot debuted in april 2014.[216] fast company reviewed an article about illinois secure choice   a state funded retirement saving system   as "neither a terse news item, nor a formal financial advice column, nor a politically charged response to economic policy", citing its informal and neutral tone.[217] the upshot developed "the needle" for the 2016 presidential election and 2020 presidential elections, a thermometer dial displaying the probability of a candidate winning.[218] in january 2016, cox was named editor of the upshot.[219] kevin quealy was named editor in june 2022.[220] according to an internal readership poll conducted by the new york times in 2019, eighty four percent of readers identified as liberal.[221] in february 1942, the new york times crossword debuted in the new york times magazine; according to richard shepard, the attack on pearl harbor in december 1941 convinced then publisher arthur hays sulzberger of the necessity of a crossword.[222] the new york times has published recipes since the 1850s and has had a separate food section since the 1940s.[223] in 1961, restaurant critic craig claiborne published the new york times cookbook,[224] an unauthorized cookbook that drew from the times's recipes.[225] since 2010, former food editor amanda hesser has published the essential new york times cookbook, a compendium of recipes from the new york times.[226] the innovation report in 2014 revealed that the times had attempted to establish a cooking website since 1998, but faced difficulties with the absence of a defined data structure.[227] in september 2014, the new york times introduced nyt cooking, an application and website.[228] edited by food editor sam sifton,[225] the times's cooking website features 21,000 recipes as of 2022.[229] nyt cooking features videos as part of an effort by sifton to hire two former tasty employees from buzzfeed.[225] in august 2023, nyt cooking added personalized recommendations through the cosine similarity of text embeddings of recipe titles.[230] the website also features no recipe recipes, a concept proposed by sifton.[231] the new york times archives its articles in a basement annex beneath its building known as "the morgue", a venture started by managing editor carr van anda in 1907. the morgue comprises news clippings, a pictures library, and the times's book and periodicals library. as of 2014, it is the largest library of any media company, dating back to 1851.[237] in november 2018, the new york times partnered with google to digitize the archival library.[238] additionally, the new york times has maintained a virtual microfilm reader known as timesmachine since 2014. the service launched with archives from 1851 to 1980; in 2016, timesmachine expanded to include archives from 1981 to 2002. the times built a pipeline to take in tiff images, article metadata in xml and an ini file of cartesian geometry describing the boundaries of the page, and convert it into a png of image tiles and json containing the information in the xml and ini files. the image tiles are generated using gdal and displayed using leaflet, using data from a content delivery network. the times ran optical character recognition on the articles using tesseract and shingled and fuzzy string matched the result.[239] the new york times uses a proprietary[240] content management system known as scoop for its online content and the microsoft word based content management system cci for its print content. scoop was developed in 2008 to serve as a secondary content management system for editors working in cci to publish their content on the times's website; as part of the new york times's online endeavors, editors now write their content in scoop and send their work to cci for print publication. since its introduction, scoop has superseded several processes within the times, including print edition planning and collaboration, and features tools such as multimedia integration, notifications, content tagging, and drafts. the new york times uses private articles for high profile opinion pieces, such as those written by russian president vladimir putin and actress angelina jolie, and for high level investigations.[241] in january 2012, the times released integrated content editor (ice), a revision tracking tool for wordpress and tinymce. ice is integrated within the times's workflow by providing a unified text editor for print and online editors, reducing the divide between print and online operations.[242] by 2017,[243] the new york times began developing a new authoring tool to its content management system known as oak, in an attempt to further the times's visual efforts in articles and reduce the discrepancy between the mediums in print and online articles.[244] the system reduces the input of editors and supports additional visual mediums in an editor that resembles the appearance of the article.[243] oak is based on prosemirror, a javascript rich text editor toolkit, and retains the revision tracking and commenting functionalities of the new york times's previous systems. additionally, oak supports predefined article headers.[245] in 2019, oak was updated to support collaborative editing using firebase to update editors's cursor status. several google cloud functions and google cloud tasks allow articles to be previewed as they will be printed, and the times's primary mysql database is regularly updated to update editors on the article status.[246] since 1895, the new york times has maintained a manual of style in several forms. the new york times manual of style and usage was published on the times's intranet in 1999.[247] the new york times uses honorifics when referring to individuals. with the ap stylebook's removal of honorifics in 2000 and the wall street journal's omission of courtesy titles in may 2023, the times is the only national newspaper that continues to use honorifics. according to former copy editor merrill perlman, the new york times continues to use honorifics as a "sign of civility".[248] the times's use of courtesy titles led to an apocryphal rumor that the paper had referred to singer meat loaf as "mr. loaf".[249] several exceptions have been made; the former sports section and the new york times book review do not use honorifics.[250] a leaked memo following the killing of osama bin laden in may 2011 revealed that editors were given a last minute instruction to omit the honorific from osama bin laden's name, consistent with deceased figures of historic significance, such as adolf hitler, napoleon, and vladimir lenin.[251] the new york times uses academic and military titles for individuals prominently serving in that position.[252] in 1986, the times began to use ms.,[250] and introduced the gender neutral title mx. in 2015.[253] the new york times uses initials when a subject has expressed a preference, such as donald trump.[254] the new york times maintains a strict but not absolute obscenity policy, including phrases. in a review of the canadian hardcore punk band fucked up, music critic kelefa sanneh wrote that the band's name   entirely rendered in asterisks   would not be printed in the times "unless an american president, or someone similar, says it by mistake";[255] the new york times did not repeat then vice president dick cheney's use of "fuck" against then senator patrick leahy in 2004[256] or then vice president joe biden's remarks that the passage of the affordable care act in 2010 was a "big fucking deal".[257] the times's profanity policy has been tested by former president donald trump. the new york times published trump's access hollywood tape in october 2016, containing the words "fuck", "pussy", "bitch", and "tits", the first time the publication had published an expletive on its front page,[258] and repeated an explicit phrase for fellatio stated by then white house communications director anthony scaramucci in july 2017.[259] the new york times omitted trump's use of the phrase "shithole countries" from its headline in favor of "vulgar language" in january 2018.[260] the times banned certain words, such as "bitch", "whore", and "sluts", from wordle in 2022.[261] journalists for the new york times do not write their own headlines, but rather copy editors who specifically write headlines. the times's guidelines insist headline editors get to the main point of an article but avoid giving away endings, if present. other guidelines include using slang "sparingly", avoiding tabloid headlines, not ending a line on a preposition, article, or adjective, and chiefly, not to pun. the new york times manual of style and usage states that wordplay, such as "rubber industry bounces back", is to be tested on a colleague as a canary is to be tested in a coal mine; "when no song bursts forth, start rewriting".[262] the new york times has amended headlines due to controversy. in 2019, following two back to back mass shootings in el paso and dayton, the times used the headline, "trump urges unity vs. racism", to describe then president donald trump's words after the shootings. after criticism from fivethirtyeight founder nate silver, the headline was changed to, "assailing hate but not guns".[263] online, the new york times's headlines do not face the same length restrictions as headlines that appear in print; print headlines must fit within a column, often six words. additionally, headlines must "break" properly, containing a complete thought on each line without splitting up prepositions and adverbs. writers may edit a headline to fit an article more aptly if further developments occur. the times uses a/b testing for articles on the front page, placing two headlines against each other. at the end of the test, the headlines that receives more traffic is chosen.[264] the alteration of a headline regarding intercepted russian data used in the mueller special counsel investigation was noted by trump in a march 2017 interview with time, in which he claimed that the headline used the word "wiretapped" in the print version of the paper on january 20, while the digital article on january 19 omitted the word. the headline was intentionally changed in the print version to use "wiretapped" in order to fit within the print guidelines.[265] the nameplate of the new york times has been unaltered since 1967. in creating the initial nameplate, henry jarvis raymond sought to model the london times, which used a blackletter style called textura, popularized following the fall of the western roman empire and regional variations of alcuin's script, as well as a period. with the change to the new york times on september 14, 1857, the nameplate followed. under george jones, the terminals of the "n", "r", and "s" were intentionally exaggerated into swashes. the nameplate in the january 15, 1894, issue trimmed the terminals once more, smoothed the edges, and turned the stem supporting the "t" into an ornament. the hyphen was dropped on december 1, 1896, after adolph ochs purchased the paper. the descender of the "h" was shortened on december 30, 1914. the largest change to the nameplate was introduced on february 21, 1967, when type designer ed benguiat redesigned the logo, most prominently turning the arrow ornament into a diamond. notoriously, the new logo dropped the period that remained with the times up until that point; one reader compared the omission of the period to "performing plastic surgery on helen of troy." picture editor john radosta worked with a new york university professor to determine that dropping the period saved the paper us$41.28 (equivalent to $377.21 in 2023).[266] as of december 2023, the new york times has printed sixty thousand issues, a statistic represented in the paper's masthead to the right of the volume number, the times's years in publication written in roman numerals.[267] the volume and issues are separated by four dots representing the edition number of that issue; on the day of the 2000 presidential election, the times was revised four separate times, necessitating the use of an em dash in place of an ellipsis.[268] the em dash issue was printed hundreds times over before being replaced by the one dot issue. despite efforts by newsroom employees to recycle copies sent to the new york times's office, several copies were kept, including one put on display at the museum at the times.[269] from february 7, 1898, to december 31, 1999, the times's issue number was incorrect by five hundred issues, an error suspected by the atlantic to be the result of a careless front page type editor. the misreporting was noticed by news editor aaron donovan, who was calculating the number of issues in a spreadsheet and noticed the discrepancy. the new york times celebrated fifty thousand issues on march 14, 1995, an observance that should have occurred on july 26, 1996.[270] the new york times has reduced the physical size of its print edition while retaining its broadsheet format. the new york daily times debuted at 18 inches (460 mm) across. by the 1950s, the times was being printed at 16 inches (410 mm) across. in 1953, an increase in paper costs to us$10 (equivalent to $113.88 in 2023) a ton increased newsprint costs to us$21.7 million (equivalent to $308,616,417.91 in 2023) on december 28, 1953, the pages were reduced to 15.5 inches (390 mm). on february 14, 1955, a further reduction to 15 inches (380 mm) occurred, followed by 14.5 and 13.5 inches (370 and 340 mm). on august 6, 2007, the largest cut occurred when the pages were reduced to 12 inches (300 mm),[k] a decision that other broadsheets had previously considered. then executive editor bill keller stated that a narrower paper would be more beneficial to the reader but acknowledged a net loss in article space of five percent.[271] in 1985, the new york times company established a minority stake in a us$21.7 million (equivalent to $308,616,417.91 in 2023) newsprint plant in clermont, quebec through donahue malbaie.[272] the company sold its equity interest in donahue malbaie in 2017.[273] the new york times often uses large, bolded headlines for major events. for the print version of the times, these headlines are written by one copy editor, reviewed by two other copy editors, approved by the masthead editors, and polished by other print editors. the process is completed before 8 p.m., but it may be repeated if further development occur, as did take place during the 2020 presidential election. on the day joe biden was declared the winner, the new york times utilized a "hammer headline" reading, "biden beats trump", in all caps and bolded. a dozen journalists discussed several potential headlines, such as "it's biden" or "biden's moment", and prepared for a donald trump victory, in which they would use "trump prevails".[274] during trump's first impeachment, the times drafted the hammer headline, "trump impeached". the new york times altered the ligatures between the e and the a, as not doing so would leave a noticeable gap due to the stem of the a sloping away from the e. the times reused the tight kerning for "biden beats trump" and trump's second impeachment, which simply read, "impeached".[275] in cases where two major events occur on the same day or immediately after each other, the new york times has used a "paddle wheel" headline, where both headlines are used but split by a line. the term dates back to august 8, 1959, when it was revealed that the united states was monitoring soviet missile firings and when explorer 6   shaped like a paddle wheel   launched. since then, the paddle wheel has been used several times, including on january 21, 1981, when ronald reagan was sworn in minutes before iran released fifty two american hostages, ending the iran hostage crisis. at the time, most newspapers favored the end of the hostage crisis, but the times placed the inauguration above the crisis. since 1981, the paddle wheel has been used twice; on july 26, 2000, when the 2000 camp david summit ended without an agreement and when bush announced that dick cheney would be his running mate, and on june 24, 2016, when the united kingdom european union membership referendum passed, beginning brexit, and when the supreme court deadlocked in united states v. texas.[276] the new york times has run editorials from its editorial board on the front page twice. on june 13, 1920, the times ran an editorial opposing warren g. harding, who was nominated during that year's republican party presidential primaries.[277] amid growing acceptance to run editorials on the front pages[278] from publications such as the detroit free press, the patriot news, the arizona republic, and the indianapolis star, the new york times ran an editorial on its front page on december 5, 2015, following a terrorist attack in san bernardino, california, in which fourteen people were killed.[279] the editorial advocates for the prohibition of "slightly modified combat rifles" used in the san bernardino shooting and "certain kinds of ammunition".[277] conservative figures, including texas senator ted cruz, the weekly standard editor bill kristol, fox & friends co anchor steve doocy, and then new jersey governor chris christie criticized the times. talk radio host erick erickson acquired an issue of the new york times to fire several rounds into the paper, posting a picture online.[280] since 1997,[281] the new york times's primary distribution center is located in college point, queens. the facility is 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2) and employs 170 people as of 2017. the college point distribution center prints 300,000 to 800,000 newspapers daily. on most occasions, presses start before 11 p.m. and finish before 3 a.m. a robotic crane grabs a roll of newsprint and several rollers ensure ink can be printed on paper. the final newspapers are wrapped in plastic and shipped out.[282] as of 2018, the college point facility accounted for 41 percent of production. other copies are printed at 26 other publications, such as the atlanta journal constitution, the dallas morning news, the santa fe new mexican, and the courier journal. with the decline of newspapers, particularly regional publications, the times must travel further; for example, newspapers for hawaii are flown from san francisco on united airlines, and sunday papers are flown from los angeles on hawaiian airlines. computer glitches, mechanical issues, and weather phenomena affect circulation but do not stop the paper from reaching customers.[283] the college point facility prints over two dozen other papers, including the wall street journal and usa today.[284] the new york times has halted its printing process several times to account for major developments. the first printing stoppage occurred on march 31, 1968, when then president lyndon b. johnson announced that he would not seek a second term. other press stoppages include may 19, 1994, for the death of former first lady jacqueline kennedy onassis, and july 17, 1996, for trans world airlines flight 800. the 2000 presidential election necessitated two press stoppages. al gore appeared to concede on november 8, forcing then executive editor joseph lelyveld to stop the times's presses to print a new headline, "bush appears to defeat gore", with a story that stated george w. bush was elected president. however, gore held off his concession speech over doubts over florida. lelyveld reran the headline, "bush and gore vie for an edge". since 2000, three printing stoppages have been issued for the death of william rehnquist on september 3, 2005, for the killing of osama bin laden on may 1, 2011, and for the passage of the marriage equality act in the new york state assembly and subsequent signage by then governor andrew cuomo on june 24, 2011.[285] the new york times website is hosted at nytimes.com. it has undergone several major redesigns and infrastructure developments since its debut. in april 2006, the new york times redesigned its website with an emphasis on multimedia.[286] in preparation for super tuesday in february 2008, the times developed a live election system using the associated press's file transfer protocol (ftp) service and a ruby on rails application; nytimes.com experienced its largest traffic on super tuesday and the day after.[287] the nytimes application debuted with the introduction of the app store on july 10, 2008. engadget's scott mcnulty wrote critically of the app, negatively comparing it to the new york times's mobile website.[288] an ipad version with select articles was released on april 3, 2010, with the release of the first generation ipad.[289] in october, the new york times expanded nyt editors' choice to include the paper's full articles. nyt for ipad was free until 2011.[290] the times applications on iphone and ipad began offering in app subscriptions in july 2011.[291] the times released a web application for ipad   featuring a format summarizing trending headlines on twitter[292]   and a windows 8 application in october 2012.[293] efforts to ensure profitability through an online magazine and a "need to know" subscription emerged in adweek in july 2013.[294] in march 2014, the new york times announced three applications   nyt now, an application that offers pertinent news in a blog format, and two unnamed applications, later known as nyt opinion[295] and nyt cooking[227]   to diversify its product laterals.[296] the daily is the modern front page of the new york times. the new york times manages several podcasts, including multiple podcasts with serial productions. the times's longest running podcast is the book review podcast,[298] debuting as inside the new york times book review in april 2006.[299] the new york times's defining podcast is the daily,[297] a daily news podcast hosted by michael barbaro and, since march 2022, sabrina tavernise.[300] the podcast debuted on february 1, 2017.[301] the new york times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so,[304] contributing to an increase in internet traffic;[305] the publication has also developed its own video games. in 2014, the new york times magazine introduced spelling bee, a word game in which players guess words from a set of letters in a honeycomb and are awarded points for the length of the word and receive extra points if the word is a pangram.[306] the game was proposed by will shortz, created by frank longo, and has been maintained by sam ezersky. in may 2018, spelling bee was published on nytimes.com, furthering its popularity.[307] in february 2019, the times introduced letter boxed, in which players form words from letters placed on the edges of a square box,[308] followed in june 2019 by tiles, a matching game in which players form sequences of tile pairings, and vertex, in which players connect vertices to assemble an image.[309] in july 2023, the new york times introduced connections, in which players identify groups of words that are connected by a common property.[310] in april, the times introduced digits, a game that required using operations on different values to reach a set number; digits was shut down in august.[311] in march 2024, the new york times released strands, a themed word search.[312] in january 2022, the new york times company acquired wordle, a word game developed by josh wardle in 2021, at a valuation in the "low seven figures".[313] the acquisition was proposed by david perpich, a member of the sulzberger family who proposed the purchase to knight[314] over slack after reading about the game.[315] the washington post purportedly considered acquiring wordle, according to vanity fair.[314] at the 2022 game developers conference, wardle stated that he was overwhelmed by the volume of wordle facsimiles and overzealous monetization practices in other games.[316] concerns over the new york times monetizing wordle by implementing a paywall mounted;[317] wordle is a client side browser game and can be played offline by downloading its webpage.[318] wordle moved to the times's servers and website in february.[319] the game was added to the nyt games application in august,[320] necessitating it be rewritten in the javascript library react.[321] in november, the new york times announced that tracy bennett would be the wordle's editor.[322] the new york times magazine and the boston globe magazine are the only weekly sunday magazines following the washington post magazine's cancellation in december 2022.[323] in february 2016, the new york times introduced a spanish website, the new york times en español.[324] the website, intended to be read on mobile devices, would contain translated articles from the times and reporting from journalists based in mexico city.[325] the times en español's style editor is paulina chavira, who has advocated for pluralistic spanish to accommodate the variety of nationalities in the newsroom's journalists and wrote a stylebook for the new york times en español[326] articles the times intends to publish in spanish are sent to a translation agency and adapted for spanish writing conventions; the present progressive tense may be used for forthcoming events in english, but other tenses are preferable in spanish. the times en español consults the real academia española and fundéu and frequently modifies the use of diacritics   such as using an acute accent for the cártel de sinaloa but not the cartel de medellín   and using the gender neutral pronoun elle.[327] headlines in the new york times en español are not capitalized. the times en español publishes el times, a newsletter led by elda cantú intended for all spanish speakers.[328] in september 2019, the new york times ended the new york times en español's separate operations.[329] a study published in the translator in 2023 found that the times en español engaged in tabloidization.[330] in june 2012, the new york times introduced a chinese website, 纽约时报中文, in response to chinese editions created by the wall street journal and the financial times. conscious to censorship, the times established servers outside of china and affirmed that the website would uphold the paper's journalistic standards; the government of china had previously blocked articles from nytimes.com through the great firewall,[331] and the website was blocked in china until august 2001 after then general secretary jiang zemin met with journalists from the new york times.[332] then foreign editor joseph kahn assisted in the establishment of cn.nytimes.com, an effort that contributed to his appointment as executive editor in april 2022.[333] in october, 纽约时报中文 published an article detailing the wealth of then premier wen jiabao's family. in response, the government of china blocked access to nytimes.com and cn.nytimes.com and references to the times and wen were censored on microblogging service sina weibo.[332] in march 2015, a mirror of 纽约时报中文 and the website for greatfire were the targets for a government sanctioned distributed denial of service attack on github in march 2015, disabling access to the service for several days.[334] chinese authorities requested the removal of the new york times's news applications from the app store in december 2016.[335] as of 2023, the new york times has received 137 pulitzer prizes,[336] the most of any publication.[337] the new york times is considered a newspaper of record in the united states.[l] the times is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the united states;[341] as of 2022, the new york times is the second largest newspaper by print circulation in the united states behind the wall street journal.[196] a study published in science, technology, & human values in 2013 found that the new york times received more citations in academic journals than the american sociological review, research policy, or the harvard law review.[342] with sixteen million unique records, the times is the third most referenced source in common crawl, a collection of online material used in datasets such as gpt 3, behind wikipedia and a united states patent database.[343] the new yorker's max norman wrote in march 2023 that the times has shaped mainstream english usage.[344] in a january 2018 article for the washington post, margaret sullivan stated that the new york times affects the "whole media and political ecosystem".[345] the new york times's nascent success has led to concerns over media consolidation, particularly amid the decline of newspapers. in 2006, economists lisa george and joel waldfogel examined the consequences of the times's national distribution strategy and audience with circulation of local newspapers, finding that local circulation decreased among college educated readers.[346] the effect of the new york times in this manner was observed in the forum of fargo moorhead, the newspaper of record for fargo, north dakota.[347] axios founder jim vandehei opined that the times is "going to basically be a monopoly" in an opinion piece written by then media columnist and former buzzfeed news editor in chief ben smith; in the article, smith cites the strength of the new york times's journalistic workforce, broadening content, and the expropriation of gawker editor in chief choire sicha, recode editor in chief kara swisher, and quartz editor in chief kevin delaney. smith compared the times to the new york yankees during their 1927 season containing murderers' row.[348] the new york times has received criticism for its coverage of the israel hamas war,[349] and the paper has been accused of holding both an anti palestinian[350] and an anti israeli[351] bias. in april 2024, the intercept reported that an internal memorandum from november 2023 instructed journalists to reduce using the terms "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" and to avoid using the phrase "occupied territory" in the context of palestinian land, "palestine" except in rare circumstances, and the term "refugee camps" to describe areas of gaza despite recognition from the united nations. a spokesperson from the times stated that issuing guidance was standard practice. an analysis by the intercept noted that the new york times described israeli deaths as a massacre nearly sixty times, but had only described palestinian deaths as a massacre once.[352] in december 2023, the new york times published an investigation titled "'screams without words': how hamas weaponized sexual violence on oct. 7", alleging that hamas weaponized sexual and gender based violence during its armed incursion on israel.[353] the investigation was the subject of an article from the intercept questioning the journalistic acumen of anat schwartz, a filmmaker involved in the inquiry who had no prior reporting experience and agreed with a post stating israel should "violate any norm, on the way to victory", doubting the veracity of the opening claim that gal abdush was raped in a timespan disputed by her family, and alleging that the times was pressured by the committee for accuracy in middle east reporting in america.[354] the new york times initiated an inquiry that received criticism from newsguild of new york president susan decarava for purported racial targeting;[355] the times's investigation concluded in ambiguity, but found that journalistic material was handled improperly.[356] the new york times has received criticism regarding its coverage of transgender people. when it published an opinion piece by weill cornell medicine professor richard a. friedman called "how changeable is gender?" in august 2015,[357] vox's german lopez criticized friedman as suggesting that parents and doctors might be right in letting children suffer from severe dysphoria in case something changes down the line, and as implying that conversion therapy may work for transgender children.[358] in february 2023, nearly one thousand[359] current and former times writers and contributors wrote an open letter addressed to standards editor philip b. corbett, criticizing the paper's coverage of transgender, non⁠ ⁠binary, and gender nonconforming people; some of the times' articles have been cited in state legislatures attempting to justify criminalizing gender affirming care.[360] contributors wrote in the open letter that "the times has in recent years treated gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language, while publishing reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources."[m] 1234567 nbc newswall street journalpoliticomsnbc/cnbc/telemundobloomberg governmentwashington examinerboston globe/washington blade fox newscbs news radioap radio/pbsvoatimeyahoo 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supported by word of the day this word has appeared in 255 articles on nytimes.com in the past year. can you use it in a sentence? by the learning network 1. fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind 2. including markedly dissimilar elements the word disparate has appeared in 255 articles on nytimes.com in the past year, including on may 22 in “the algebra problem: how middle school math became a national flashpoint” by troy closson: “you have some kids who are ready for algebra in fourth grade, and they should not be denied it,” mr. noguera said. “others are still struggling with arithmetic in high school, and they need support.” many schools are unequipped to teach children with disparate math skills in a single classroom. some educators lack the training they need to help students who have fallen behind, while also challenging those working at grade level or beyond. can you correctly use the word disparate in a sentence? based on the definition and example provided, write a sentence using today’s word of the day and share it as a comment on this article. it is most important that your sentence makes sense and demonstrates that you understand the word’s definition, but we also encourage you to be creative and have fun. if you want a better idea of how disparate can be used in a sentence, read these usage examples on vocabulary.com. you can also visit this guide to learn how to use ipa symbols to show how different words are pronounced. if you enjoy this daily challenge, try our vocabulary quizzes. students ages 13 and older in the united states and the united kingdom, and 16 and older elsewhere, can comment. all comments are moderated by the learning network staff. the word of the day is provided by vocabulary.com. learn more and see usage examples across a range of subjects in the vocabulary.com dictionary. see every word of the day in this column.

 supported by this word has appeared in 30 articles on nytimes.com in the past year. can you use it in a sentence? by the learning network this word has appeared in 31 articles on nytimes.com in the past year.