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Amir Levy/Getty Images What Happens Next The coming weeks are likely to see rising volatility as Israel weighs its next move amid growing friction with Iran.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025 -
Household confidence shaken Market volatility is having a significant effect on savers in Sweden, a country renowned for its high level of household savings in investment funds among its 10.5 million population.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
6 June 2025
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For comparison, Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0167 and is therefore close to circular; at the other extreme, an orbital eccentricity of 1 would be parabolic.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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Class struggle is reflected in the way that the back-alley heavy, Atticus Hawk, dismisses the ivory-tower eccentricity of the occult specialist Scholar Vitali.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Compounding investor worries are governance issues, including previous allegations of accounting irregularities, delays in SEC filings, and scrutiny from short sellers.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Satellite orientation irregularities may occur; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites is possible.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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Years of naval inconstancy with repair work drove Vigor Industrial—a once vibrant and growing maritime conglomerate—into the welcoming arms of hedge funds, which wasted no time in striping the company of value.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2024
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In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2022
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“Arbitrariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arbitrariness. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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