big business

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Recent Examples of big business These two companies— Broadcom and Marvell — help wean the big hyperscalers off a part of Nvidia and have hurt Nvidia’s stock the most, especially given that Anthropic runs mostly on Amazon’s chips; hence the big business there. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 May 2026 Downtown Brooklyn’s 141 Willoughby Street was an under-construction residential tower when the developers flipped their plans in 2019, converting it to an office build and recasting it as the borough’s next big business hub. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 1 May 2026 All in all, marathons are a big business opportunity. Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2026 And the ability to do that is big business, especially for pharmaceutical companies who can lose billions of dollars when new drugs have made it through many phases of development only to be thwarted by a late-stage mutation or resistance. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for big business
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Noun
  • On Tuesday, Anthropic expanded the effort to include 150 organizations in more than 15 countries.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • The new union, United Faculty-UAW, would be affiliated with the United Auto Workers, which has grown from an auto manufacturing labor organization to one that represents journalists, higher-education faculty, aerospace and defense workers and a variety of white-collar professionals in other fields.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The stakes are high for Microsoft, which was one of the first tech companies to make a big bet on AI, through a $13 billion partnership with OpenAI, but then lost its early lead as various rivals joined the race.
    Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 29 May 2026
  • Through partnerships with farmers across the United States, Smyth delivers high quality ingredients, creativity, unique pairings and the flavors of the Midwest.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA Today, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The Star, which also looked into the killing, revealed that Jordan’s associations with organized crime figures, as well as his apparent disregard for angering them, likely contributed to his death.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
  • The association said a fourth climber, Mārtiņš Bilzēns, survived the fall and was in critical condition.
    Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Driver unions have pushed back against the asymmetry of information this model creates.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • The coalition is composed of a variety of groups ranging from tenant unions to local advocates for racial justice.
    Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • From guilds to cooperatives in the industrial era In his time, Leo XIII rejected both unfettered capitalism and revolutionary socialism.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 May 2026
  • Try planting a ring of parsley around the trunks of apple trees as part of a fruit guild, or grow a few parsley plants in pots and move them beneath the trees when the parsley starts flowering.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026

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“Big business.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/big%20business. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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