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It’s helpful to note that bear markets, typically defined as a 20% pullback in a major stock benchmark, are inevitable, but they don’t tend to last long.

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If your work has long defined you, stepping back can feel like losing a part of yourself.

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Missing out on even a few days of a rally, even if you also suffer the 10% pullback that is usually defined as a “correction,” can have a big impact on your portfolio.

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The IRS has never defined how much political activity is too much.

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At the finish line is the prize of “artificial general intelligence”—a nebulous term that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has defined as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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