darling
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When “It Ends” premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2025, it was not exactly the runaway darling of the year’s programming.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Her company was one of the first to invest in Chinese robotics darling Unitree, whose share price soared over 600 percent on its debut in Shanghai on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lauded as an AI darling in 2025, its stock had a rough start to 2026 as it was swept up in the broader software selloff earlier this year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, best known for starring in the 2007 indie darling “Once” and winning an Oscar for “Falling Slowly,” the film’s original song along with co-star Markéta Irglová, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“And I do promise you, madam, that your darling boy is perfectly safe.”
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
The Dow industrials surged, while chip stocks were selling off as investors ditched artificial-intelligence darlings in favor of other sectors that had been left behind this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
It made me kill some of my darlings and really focus on what I want this sampler platter to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
However such a shift within the market may mean problems for current investor darlings.
From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026
The "silver darlings", as they were known, brought wealth but it was the discovery of black gold in 1969 which transformed the city and the nation.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
We don’t have any pictures, but we have thoroughly described our darlings to each other.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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