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as in company
a commercial or industrial activity or organization merged with another firm to become a major player in the brokerage business

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Recent Examples of firm
Noun
The firm also said another Chinese ocean carrier, Hede Shipping, is likely to pay $40 million in fees. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Oct. 2025 The law applies to any company operating in California that uses massive amounts of computing power for model training, a threshold designed to regulate only cutting-edge developers while exempting smaller firms. Harry Booth, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025 Most shoes have a firm outer, which takes up more space in your suitcase and can easily be dented if not packed correctly. Rebecca Shinners, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for firm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firm
Noun
  • So, while firing a worker solely for a statement or a belief may be shortsighted, companies can and will take action when employee behavior erodes trust, respect, or collaboration.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • When several residents received such offers, rumors about the company’s intentions quickly swirled.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • SanDisk — The maker of solid state drives jumped 10%, adding to its massive gains.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Chris Copeland, Justin Copeland) Student Shorts With solid storytelling and emerging vision, these films represent a broad range of categories including live-action, narrative, documentary, and animation.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Before referrals were halted, the effort that placed people at the Civic had already moved hard-to-reach homeless people from the street to a shelter space and, in many cases, then on to long-term housing and stability.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Whether the Jedi mind trick played a role Sunday is hard to quantify, but the message was obvious.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Mercury’s retrograde ends on the 7th and will help clear up any misunderstandings or mental fog that have kept you stuck in the wrong dynamics for too long.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • However, Ecclestone led opposition to their use, and Renault was ultimately convinced that the V6s would achieve its aims and so stuck around.
    Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Malick Thiaw and Sven Botman have been drafted in at centre-half, through no fault of Fabian Schar and Dan Burn, and have been resolute.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Takaichi has promised to be a resolute leader, but will need to learn the art of compromise while juggling priorities and trade-offs on domestic policies.
    Jeff Kingston, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The technique could make optical clocks smaller, more stable, and usable outside high-end labs.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This doesn’t just happen for balls rolling down hills, but for rain that pools into puddles, ponds, and lakes, for molecules that fold into a particular configuration, and even for electrons that cascade down into a stable or quasi-stable energy state.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The lone crack in Yesavage’s sturdy exterior came in the first inning.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Jones is signed for another five seasons at a $7 million cap hit that is only going to get more reasonable as the cap continues to rise.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • So, spending your free time on a massive project for your crush seems perfectly reasonable.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Firm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firm. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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