compelling

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While the selloff has largely stabilized, the broad repricing hasn’t been reversed, leaving many companies racing to successfully articulate a compelling future to investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

But the mystery proved too compelling to ignore.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

“The notion that they inadvertently failed to add reports to this case is just not compelling to this court. This is something that should have been looked at and it wasn’t.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Unless you’re a big soccer or golf fan, there’s nothing compelling at the moment.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Once it had lost the head start that it had enjoyed thanks to its locally available concentration of domesticable wild plants and animals, the Fertile Crescent possessed no further compelling geographic advantages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond