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balk

[bawk] / bɔk /




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As competition with Anthropic heats up, and customers balk at the cost of using its products, OpenAI is reportedly considering whether to slash the fees charged for its AI tokens.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Dickens’s readers balk at his use of caricature and coincidence, but as Mr. Keefe shows, both are appropriate for a money-mad city full of affluence and anonymity, weird proximities and sudden death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Inflows to private funds could dry up in coming months as wealth managers balk at committing client cash to them, given negative headlines about private credit and the ability to buy similar cheaper public funds.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

But then came a balk that scored the winning run in El Camino Real’s 1-0 victory.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

There were two main horrors to which it was subject, the first of which was toe horror peculiar to all balls of string—that they invariably became tangles instead of balk.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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