discount
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Healthcare usually trades at a discount to the market, even though healthcare spending has outpaced the broader economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Healthcare stocks no longer trade at a discount to the broader market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“I’m an actor. A good one, but not a rich one — yet. Would you consider a starving-artist discount? Based on our shared artistic dreams?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Brian McQuinn, the co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data and Conflict at the University of Regina told AFP it "would be folly" to discount the impact this could have in Canada.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The bakery sometimes sold us day-old bread at a discount, but it was hit-or-miss based on what was available.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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The deal, if approved, would give Washington a "predictable, affordable, and resilient" fighter jet program, Lockheed said, pointing to billions of dollars in expected savings thanks to "long-term pricing and industry volume discounts."
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
GM has benefited from its lineup of trucks and its resistance to boosting discounts, according to analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
In response to questions from The Times, she described the initiative as an expansion of existing programs that provide free fares to students and discounts to low-income riders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Fast-food chains have been battling for consumers and often resorting to discounts to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Ah, there is a report here, sir, of Union cavalry in Gettysburg, but General Hill discounts it.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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But over half of the families attending the summer camp get a discounted rate because they earn $200,000 a year or less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The University of Gloucestershire said it had expanded support for students with flexible accommodation available for them to use, discounted travel and that it had created new facilities designed specifically for commuters.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
A rabble-rousing, union-advocating teacher friend of mine came out of the same public schools as me, and she now teaches at a private school, primarily to pay for the discounted tuition her daughter receives.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
There was a catastrophe that loomed over the convention, but it wasn’t Bitcoin’s newly discounted cost.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Trying to get her testimony discounted, he questioned her expertise again and again.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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She says she honored him by caring for him and that I’m discounting everything she sacrificed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The company has been selling pricier models, and resisting discounting, to boost its top line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Walmart is deciding that they’re not going to discount products. They’re discounting the decision to commit to become a member.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Though it’s nice of Roberts to pay enough lip service that he’s not totally discounting the best-of-five current series they’re in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Indeed, it is the same figure provided by Las Casas, patron saint of High Counters, foremost among the old Spanish sources whose estimates Henige spends many pages discounting.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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