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Steve Hooper has a sizable chunk of his money in Latigo Peak’s most conservative strategy, which generates income that the 73-year-old and his wife have lived off since his retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The broadband provider has not finalised the number of roles to be cut but it is likely be a sizeable chunk of its 16,000 workforce, the BBC understands.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
“Every game, San Juan Hills has six to 10 explosive plays on offense that are 40- to 60-yard chunk plays,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
After spending a good chunk of the past year in Wall Street’s doghouse, Microsoft currently stands as the winner among the major cloud companies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Sharks around here must have tasted the chunk I lost from my forehead in the storm, thought it was jaw-snapping yum!, and wanted to chomp the rest.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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So much sand has eroded at the popular Newport Beach surfing spot The Wedge that remnants of decades-old buried infrastructure, like rusted metal rods and chunks of concrete, have been exposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
A US official said recently that the chances of the package being split into smaller chunks "have gone way up".
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
After World War II, Germany lost large chunks of territory that once stretched as far east as Kaliningrad, now part of Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Large chunks of concrete could be seen scattered around and inside the collapsed area, while orange traffic cones cordoned off the site as workers surveyed the damage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Ice cream with chunks of doodh ka halwa.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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