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[klas, klahs] / klæs, klɑs /








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Investor will turn to whether the company’s establishment of a new nonvoting share class presages equity fundraising in 2027, the analyst adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In Meta’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer Susan Li said creating a new class of nonvoting stock benefits the company in various ways, including “capital raising, employee compensation, acquisitions, other general corporate purposes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Read more: Cars were once a financial engine of America’s middle class.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

"The middle class," he said, "is looking for someone who will look responsible, boring. I think Eisenkot has that appeal."

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The way she went from city to city and school to school, how could she remember one class over another?

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Netflix film carefully attends to the story of two couples of disparate classes who become increasingly entangled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Her children, like many others in Indonesia's more haze-affected areas, have been doing their school classes online, she says, while she and other adults struggle to manage half-a-day's work out in the poisonous air.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Sargent enjoyed taking computer-programming classes in high school, and several months later enrolled at the college with roughly 500 students.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Singapore classes a day as "unhealthy" if the local PSI measure tips over 100 at any point during the day.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

In fact, for the first time ever, I skip not one, but two classes.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

By Monday, there had been 15 consecutive days classed as "unhealthy" based on the local PSI air quality measuring system, exceeding the eight measured in 2015, NEA deputy director Jason Evan Tan told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Maybe Fuller, the guy who classed up “Hannibal,” could have done something brilliant with Pamela.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Little Terns are currently classed as amber on the UK list of conservation concern.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Customers who get PIP and are classed as having limited mobility can lease a car for no cash upfront—they simply forgo about £320 a month of “enhanced mobility” allowance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

As mentioned above, they are built on a basis of carbon atoms, which are also the indispensable building blocks of the living world, and thus classed as “organic.”

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The locations, especially as photographed here by cinematographer Leo Zhang, make for a crafty way of classing up a low-budget feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

It’s not specified in the script but I think she comes from rural Illinois or something and she’s created this affect, this mid-Atlantic accent as a way of classing herself up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

But that doesn't mean this falls outside the classing system.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023

Even though they're a sturdy, workman's shoe, they have a knack for quickly classing up any golf outfit, pairing just as well with casual shorts as they do with high-end trousers.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 12, 2017

At any rate, classing the Trinil skull as human, it may be described as tending towards the simian type more than any other known.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various


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