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"Hyperscalers had attracted much of that buying, while the supply chain remained one of the cleanest expressions of the belief that the AI capex machine would keep running at full throttle," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Over seven decades, the American discount chain built a 21,000-store juggernaut on a simple formula: Go where Walmart won’t, keep stores bare-bones and sell cheap staples to people stretching their paychecks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The chain was founded in 1962 by Glenn Bell in Downey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Rather than treating the inductive effect as an influence that gradually travels along a chain of atoms, the team's interpretation confines it to the bond directly connected to the relevant atom in a neutral molecule.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
I went outside, holding Black Star on his chain.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
On recent earnings calls, executives at department-store chains like Macy’s and Kohl’s have cited jewelry as a strength.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
To be clear, these A.I. agents are remarkably advanced and sophisticated chains of command.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
Organic chemists routinely study chains of atoms that form the molecular foundations of medicines, advanced materials, agrochemicals, polymers and many other technologies used in everyday life.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The strikes have also targeted steel companies, another key sector, as well as supply chains -- notably in the rail sector -- and major warehouses.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Hannah nods, unzipping her backpack and handing a couple of key chains to the guy.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Searching for "secret information" that could help it cheat the evaluation, the OpenAI system "chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials".
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
"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
The bug wasn’t the worst type there is, but it could be chained together with another hack to seize control of a computer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
“Ah, so they keep you chained to the workbench all day.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
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
More than 200 pro-Palestinian protesters blocked off traffic on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, with some people chaining themselves together across lanes and shutting down a vital Bay Area route during the busy morning commute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
By winter he was back in the woods with Charlie McDonald, cutting cottonwoods, chaining them to the draft horses, and skidding them out of the woods in snow and sleet.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
