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“At the same time, the nuclear fuel supply chain is not yet fully engaged in responding to this rising demand outlook despite significant increases in prices,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
What is far more troubling is their apparent goals, which have also been captured in detailed chain of thought records.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The original meme stock is not the retail videogame chain that was famously portrayed in the movie “Dumb Money.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Digitimes says the shift should create opportunities across the supply chain, from switch and interconnect chipmakers to suppliers of cables, connectors and optical components, particularly in Taiwan’s hardware ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Polar bears were just the biggest, baddest, most obvious part of the food chain.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The other key determinant of the copper price in recent years has been the growing impact of geopolitics, deglobalization, disrupted supply chains and resource autonomy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Their high-touch approach is a departure from most mass-market chains, which have been cutting store staff in recent years as they funnel money into e-commerce, though some have started to reverse course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A group of the 18 biggest shipping countries warned that global conflicts, trade restrictions and chokepoints were raising costs and spreading uncertainty across global supply chains, The Wall Street Journal’s Costas Paris writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was in that role that he solidified his unique look, wearing stacks of heavy gold chains, often gathered from forgetful patrons who left them behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
And Frank’s putting chains on the porch swing.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
"You were not chained to a door or something, right? You were not locked up in a basement. The chains were less obvious, but they were there."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
AI also has helped accelerate the microshift movement by taking over lower-level tasks that keep people chained to their desks during specific hours, such as sorting and responding to emails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Outside the capital's national police facility known as Zone 7, family members had chained themselves to prison gates, while some had spent weeks sleeping in tents.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
He did not have his hands and feet chained together.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
Adding eight gigawatts of new demand to a 2.4 gigawatt system is like chaining an M1 Abrams tank to a Toyota Camry and expecting the two vehicles to drive calmly down the highway together.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
You and your husband have gone from wanting to sell this house to actually chaining yourself to the house and the future occupants.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
New offences were created including interfering with national infrastructure, "locking on" – chaining or gluing yourself to something – and tunnelling underground.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
Ben Williamson, who works for PeTA, says that the new box shows that people today no longer accept “the chaining and caging of wild animals.”
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 23, 2024
Pointing his wand at the thick cuffs chaining the beast to the floor, he yelled, “Relashio!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
