One of the reasons why he asked his office to cull 10 letters a day for him from the 40, 000 that are received by this White House, addressed to him every day, is because he wanted to, in their own words, read about the travails that some Americans are going through.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

This is the reason we can often read sentences in which the words have all their vowels missing and make sense of them.

FORBES: TEDGlobal

Children at the end of Year 1 will be asked to read 20 words and 20 "made-up words" such as "zog" or "vot" to their teachers.

BBC: Education & Family

Vance told victims' relatives who were in court that she read their "truly gut-wrenching" written statements and factored their words into her decision.

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Because most people read words more quickly than they can identify and name colours, this widely used method tests their ability to inhibit the urge to read what is written and instead focus on the task of naming the colour.

ECONOMIST: Cognitive disenhancement

Skirting around ol' Wernie Heisenberg and that Principle of his, the team exploited quantum entanglement to read the encryption keys encoded in photon polarizations from their momentums, avoiding detection by either end -- in other words, doing what was once thought impossible by cryptographers.

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