C
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Salesforce has been an investor in the AI company since its Series C funding round in 2023.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
More broadly, the thermometer climbed above 35 C in regions covering 80 percent of Europe’s residents, some 490 million people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Series C investment, which included other venture-capital firms, includes $800 million in equity and a $250 million revolving credit facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
But the Aerotrain designers did not see fit to extend the line to concourse D, in part because both C and D were built in the ’80s as temporary concourses meant to be replaced.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
For example, this scale would contain the same notes whether you start it on C or E.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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In high school, I received mostly B’s and C’s, and I didn’t study for the SATs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
I call them the three C’s: courts, crowds, and courage.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
However, Alison Downes, director of pressure group Stop Sizewell C, said ministers had not "come clean" about Sizewell C's cost, because "negotiations with private investors are incomplete".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
Maya recommends focusing on three C’s: catch, cause and cancer.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
But it wasn’t Uncle C’s, like in my nightmares.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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Only eight banks got Bs, while the majority got Cs; 36 got Ds.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
The 16-year-old hopes to get a minimum of five Cs, including maths and Welsh, to study for a Level 3 in agricultural engineering at Coleg Glynllifon.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
In high school, he said, his son got Cs and Ds, until he switched to the district’s independent study program.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
Alleah got three Cs, three Bs and an A, allowing her to go to Bridgend College to study performing arts.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024
They go from low Bs to very low Cs before they figure out what is going on.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Beyond consent, the other two c’s, credit and compensation, have their own challenges, as illustrated even now with the high cost of litigation regarding infringements of copyright or patents.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023
“It hasn’t rained in months,” she said, her Tuscan Italian full of soft g’s and c’s.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
On the other hand I can always tell you that I lost a spelling bee to Juanita Meyers in the fifth grade; the word was necessary, I misspelled it with two "c's."
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
Hard consonants - k's, d's, hard c's and hard g's - gave me hell.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2010
Double up on the c’s and the s’s.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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A contestant in the Season 3 premiere lays out her "four cs" theory of success: "courage, creativity, cash and celebrity."
From Time Magazine Archive
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C or cz is pronounced as English ts; cs as English ch; ds as English j; zs as French j; gy as dy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
Of these, x was equivalent to cs, while the equivalence of z is uncertain.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
In early Latin, cs was often written for x.
From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck
Longitudinal section of flower; v, bracteole on the peduncle; l, sepals; ls, appendage of sepal; c, petals; cs, spur of the lower petals; fs, glandular appendage of the lower stamens; a, anthers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various