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chain

[cheyn] / tʃeɪn /




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The chain is growing through global expansion: Domino’s added nearly 800 stores globally in 2025 and plans to add nearly 1,000 in 2026.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

While much of the industry is dealing with elevated input costs, the burger chain is particularly vulnerable to the surge in beef prices stemming from record low cattle supply in the U.S.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Costs from the hospital chain operator’s continuing renovations and capacity expansion this year through 2028 are also increasing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Sometimes bands break up for one specific or large reason, and sometimes it is a chain of events, seemingly unrelated, or not visible from the outside.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

The entire food chain of intermediaries in the subprime mortgage market was duping itself with the same trick, using the foreshortened, statistically meaningless past to predict the future.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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