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active

[ak-tiv] / ˈæk tɪv /




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As an active dad of two daughters — a toddler and a newborn — there’s no time for negativity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026

With zero trading costs, he argued, the coffee can could outperform most active managers and perhaps even the market itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

Caputo said that phenomenon was expected and normal, because when the Sun is in its more active cyclical stages, it emits more particles and causes an expansion of Earth's atmosphere.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

Teledyne, often categorized as an industrial-sensing company, is embedded in the counterdrone detection chain through systems already operational in active theaters.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

All three of the active reactors at Fukushima Daiichi had melted down.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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