stocks 1 of 2

noun

plural of stock
1
as in families
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor the bride comes from good stock

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2
as in idiots
a stupid person just sat there like a stock, staring at me blankly whenever I asked him a question

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3
as in lineages
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended his family is of mixed northern European stock

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as in supplies
the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time the new study adds to the general stock of knowledge about genetic disorders

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stocks

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verb

present tense third-person singular of stock
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as in stores

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as in ranges

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Recent Examples of stocks
Noun
Oil prices bounced around before finishing higher Tuesday while global stocks were mixed as markets awaited a key inflation report expected to influence upcoming monetary policy decisions. — Betty Nguyen, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 The eye-popping gains of Nvidia, Micron, Alphabet and other AI stocks have helped inflate the net worths of millions of Americans by lifting the value of their retirement nest eggs, college savings plans and brokerage accounts. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 Seoul has been home to the world’s sharpest swings for artificial-intelligence stocks because it’s dominated by two tech giants, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. — Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 The bigger signal may be coming from memory stocks themselves. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026 Some of those stocks have since bounced back, suggesting the broader thesis may still prove right over time. — Andrew Graham, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stocks
  1. families
  2. idiots
  3. lineages
  4. supplies
  5. stores
  6. ranges
  7. houses
  8. morons
Noun
  • Skeptics say such psychic profilers do more harm than good by wasting police resources and exploiting grieving families.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Saturday’s statement alleged that Qatar had not allowed the pilots to meet or communicate with families or Iranian officials handling their cases.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of families
Noun
  • That's the continous nonsense these idiots provide to a website like OutKick.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Tallahassee lawmakers must think their constituents are idiots.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of idiots
Noun
  • The fossil indicates that lineages closely related to the Euparkeriidae were also present in South America, highlighting the continent’s role in the early diversification of the relatives of dinosaurs and crocodiles.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • So there seems to be something actively problematic with the DNA from those lineages in these regions.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
Definition of lineages
Noun
  • Tehran also responded by effectively shutting down tanker and cargo traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, through which around one-fifth of global oil supplies usually transit.
    — Frank Andrews, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Before the war, an average of 120 vessels crossed the crucial waterway, through which one-fifth of global oil supplies used to travel, every day.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of supplies
Verb
  • Michael Haskell stores much of his inventory in the garage of his mother's home in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
    — Sarah Jackson Valentina Duarte, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The measure stores a unique encryption key in a silicon-resident fortress that’s built into the device running the browser.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of stores
Verb
  • The cost for the work ranges from $250,000 to $350,000, stated the email from Ice.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Representing twelve states, the 2026 fellowship cohort ranges in age from twenty-nine to seventy-nine.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of ranges
Noun
  • We were guided to interior forests, aged tabby houses and waterway edges.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • But in Southern California’s wealthy foothill enclaves, event promoters are regularly transforming these types of regal estates into weekend party houses filled with young people who are willing to pay to enter.
    — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of houses
Noun
  • There are complicated brain-chemistry factors involved that have to do with testosterone, and dopaminergic systems, and kappa-opioid receptors, all of which seem to add up to a Jim Gaffigan joke about how men are morons compared with their wives.
    — McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
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