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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Recent Examples of stocks
Justina Lee,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Tech stocks fell Monday even as the US projected optimism about ongoing peace talks with Iran.
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Jake Angelo,
semafor.com,
22 June 2026
On May 9, 1873—Black Friday—stocks collapsed, and fights broke out on the floor of the exchange, which was forced to close.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
These stocks have yo-yoed in recent weeks, going from roaring to records to suddenly turning lower.
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Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
On Wall Street, stocks of companies with big fuel bills were instant winners.
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Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Recent weakness in the Magnificent 7 stocks now looks to be an opportunity for investors, given that US equity trends remain bullish in the near term, said Mark Newton, head of technical strategy at Fundstrat.
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Justina Lee,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Tech stocks fell Monday even as the US projected optimism about ongoing peace talks with Iran.
—
Jake Angelo,
semafor.com,
22 June 2026
On May 9, 1873—Black Friday—stocks collapsed, and fights broke out on the floor of the exchange, which was forced to close.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
These stocks have yo-yoed in recent weeks, going from roaring to records to suddenly turning lower.
—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
15 June 2026
On Wall Street, stocks of companies with big fuel bills were instant winners.
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Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stocks
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Why money lessons matter before graduation Pimienta, a first-generation college student, said many families are still learning financial literacy on their own.
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Lots of Massachusetts families are like this, with fierce loyalty to either the Nantucket Sound or Cape Cod Bay sides of the Cape.
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This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.
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Kids, let’s face it, are idiots by nature, and that’s not their fault.
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By comparing how development unfolds across different lineages, scientists can begin piecing together which traits are ancient and which are evolutionary innovations.
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Consistent with this, researchers continued to find clusters of genes in eukaryotes that came from lineages other than alphaproteobacteria.
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Road blockades have caused shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies in parts of the country and ground the economy to a halt over the past 50 days.
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Nick Engen and Taylor Calmus CBS To help encourage fathers navigating similar experiences, Taylor Calmus, creator of the popular online Dude Dad brand, visited the NICU ahead of Father's Day to surprise Engen and other dads with gift bags filled with supplies.
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The Tallerboy is a taller-than-a-tallboy canister that stores three regular Coors Light cans inside one oversized container.
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When the car is switched off and in a stable state, the system captures and stores an image of the underbody, establishing a snapshot of what the area should normally look like.
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The gold Mega Ball ranges from 1 to 24.
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The park ranges from roughly 200 to 2,000 feet in elevation, so the outing can be a gentle walk or a seriously out-of-breath climb.
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The country is a top cultivator and exporter of greenhouse tomatoes (Mexico, China, Canada, the United States and Spain are the other power-green houses in this space, with an annual market of ~$10B growing to ~$16B by 2030).
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Beach houses are the way to stay in Edisto; book one big enough to sleep the entire family and make memories to last a lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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“Stocks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stocks. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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