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company

[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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Integrated oil giant BP has lagged its closest rivals over the last three to five years, but now one leading Wall Street firm says it’s time to buy the beleaguered company.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

Production has hit a ceiling, but the company has no intention of scaling up.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

The company says it has performed more than 2,950 bleph procedures on UK patients at its clinics in the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland since October 2024.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

Seaver and his company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services, LLC, are the defendants in the lawsuit.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2026

“Yes, to bring these lovely dogs with you. They must be good company when you have to be away from your family.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Bespoke Investment Group also noted that a ban would plausibly lead to a reduction in global diesel supplies, and in turn hurt profits at refining companies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

He argued there "should be a landing zone to agree mandatory testing", without undermining competitive advantage between companies and nations.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

For cybersecurity companies, that is proving good for business.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

Khosla said Broda’s own technical background makes him both a discerning investor and someone portfolio companies are drawn to.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

Some decried their use as a way for biochemical companies to make money; others declared that GMOs would save the world from famine and food insecurity.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

It handed lucrative contracts to the country’s biggest construction companied.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2016

The companied initially tried to list its shares on the Hong Kong Exchange, which would seem to be a friendly home.

From Time Sep. 19, 2014

And presumably it is at least an implication of Bacon's dictum that our poor illiterate lonely hordes are neither companied nor "full", for reading accomplisheth fullness.

From The Guardian Feb. 17, 2011

Generals and admirals in varied uniforms, sun helmets, marine wool jackets, coveralls, khakis and tin hats, ac companied him on an inspection tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

He kept good order among the men and women that companied with him in the Deer-Slunk.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 4, 2018

As it turned out, the U.S. newsmen ac companying Nixon faced dangers of their own when the Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day.

From Time Magazine Archive

You are a sad crew," began the King, eyeing them pleasantly, and sitting forward with a hand on either knee, "and I am astonished, my Lord of Canterbury, at your companying with them.

From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson

It was much more common to see him sallying forth cheek by jowl with some of these, fishing, hawking, or boar-hunting, than to see him companying with his Saxon comrades.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

If Denas is companying with Roland Tresham she oughtn’t to do it, and I must tell her so, that I must.

From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr




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