cloud
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The AI cloud market boasts attractive returns on investment, Beck added, as demand for compute capacity continues to outpace supply.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
In each case, however, it was nestled within a cloud of about a dozen other big institutions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The group’s current cloud backlog—a closely watched measure of sales that SAP expects over the coming year based on existing contracts—grew 26% at constant currencies in the second quarter, above expectations of around 24%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
If the fire is powerful enough and the atmosphere is unstable, that cloud can grow into a towering cumulonimbus - the same type of cloud associated with thunderstorms.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The cloud was coming so fast, so full of lightning; it was much too big to get in one frame of her camera.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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While investors are wading back into software stocks, many analysts recommend a selective approach, since the threat of AI still clouds the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Scientists sometimes describe these clouds as a fire-generated thunderstorm because the fire itself provides the energy needed to build the cloud.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Firefighters battling devastating fires in France have had to contend with a new threat: immense fire clouds that create their own wind and even lightning that can spark fresh blazes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
During another pass, I was even able to upshift from 2nd to third gear without losing the drift, swinging wide at the track edge, trailing clouds of glory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
He stood at their very roots: craning his neck at vast, swooping ice-faces, at black peaks that pierced the clouds.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Yet the resumption of fighting has clouded the outlook, especially among manufacturers coping with tariffs, higher energy prices and supply disruptions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
However, the outlook for trade during the rest of the year has been clouded by a new wave of tariff increases in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It is unacceptable that a public institution already so clouded in secrecy either chooses to or must rely on a private consulting firm.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Take this spring’s Michael Jackson biopic, a film that purged Jackson of all of his eccentricities in an attempt to downplay the allegations that clouded his late career.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
The sky had clouded over and a light mist was falling as I left the building, but the rumbling in the sky hinted at a coming storm.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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Instead, they say shifts in how the survey is conducted are clouding the picture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Or am I just so taken with this show, a series I myself came to late, that my enthusiasm is clouding my judgment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Today, severe corneal clouding often requires a full corneal transplant.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
The markets got an unwelcome reminder today that the war in Iran isn’t over, clouding a picture that’s recently been dominated by sunny earnings reports.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Kingston puts his paws up on the back door, looks sadly in the window at Garrett, whose eyes are clouding with tears.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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