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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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
AppLovin was one of the top-performing tech stocks not that long ago. — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 6 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 The Kospi index had sunk more than 17% in the previous three days as investors dumped technology stocks in part over worries about an AI bubble and rising competition from chipmaking and AI rivals in China. — ABC News, 30 July 2026 Take Samsung, which posted a record $62 billion profit, a 19-fold increase, and then saw stocks sell off, or Meta, punished after another quarter of growing revenue. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stocks
  1. families
  2. idiots
  3. lineages
  4. supplies
  5. stores
  6. ranges
  7. houses
  8. morons
Noun
  • There are larger unresolved issues for the families, including the case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered the architect of the attack, and four co-defendants that still has not gone to trial.
    — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The question reflected my own years spent watching youth tournaments at Anaheim's American Sports Centers alongside thousands of volleyball families.
    — Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 8 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
  • Nine days earlier, OpenAI disclosed that its own models had broken out of a testing environment and compromised Hugging Face, the platform where much of the open machine learning world stores its models and datasets.
    — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • CyberGuy previously reported that a Washington judge ruled Flock license plate reader images can qualify as public records, even when a private company stores the files for a city.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 July 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
Definition of morons

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