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Noun
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On Robust Earnings Reports—As Microsoft Reclaims Crown As World’s Largest Company In the face of increasing economic volatility, C-suite leaders across industries are looking to add and deliver value in new ways.—
Muqsit Ashraf,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025 -
The firm flagged short-term volatility in its business caused by tariffs and trade curbs in March.—
Shashwat Chauhan and Medha Singh,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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For the past three seasons, the series has revealed the quirks, impulses, excesses, dysfunctions, nuances and eccentricities of the wealthy against the backdrop of a luxury resort chain and its not-so faceless employees.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Lives Lived: John Peck, known as the Mad Peck, was a cultural omnivore whose work as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic and disc jockey had a dry humor and an ornate eccentricity.—
German Lopez,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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What’s left is still good quality leather, despite natural irregularities, small defects or being too small to be used.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
30 Apr. 2025
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Legacy and ever-new electoral irregularities are a major reason chavismo continues to rule Venezuela.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Apr. 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 7 May. 2025.
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