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The oysterman and former Marine who bested a popular governor and built a grass-roots network of more than 15,000 supporters in Maine announced he was suspending his campaign on Wednesday night.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Seagate on Tuesday bested Wall Street expectations with its third-quarter earnings and revenue results and issued fourth-quarter guidance, the initial signal the AI boom is still driving up demand for data storage.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
When the Apollo program ended in 1972, we children couldn’t comprehend budget constraints or having bested our Soviet rivals in a long-running “space race.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Bolstering Netflix’s coffers is a $2.8 billion breakup fee it collected after Paramount Skydance bested the streaming service’s accepted bid for WBD.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
The Cursed Toads—Spares whom she’d sympathized with, had tried to learn about, who she thought shared a common fate—had tricked and bested them.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
