whisker

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If they want income, there’s a problem: Dividends on the S&P are only just over 1%—and only a whisker above their lowest ever, in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

That put the benchmark just a whisker away from correction territory, and firmly south of its 200-day moving average.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

There, after round one, the incumbent Socialist Mayor, Benoît Payan, is only a whisker ahead of RN candidate Franck Allisio.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Reform won the first one in Runcorn and Helsby in Cheshire last May, beating Labour by a whisker.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

“And look at that color. Not so much as a pale whisker, that’s why he’s worth twenty if he’s worth a single shim.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss