discount
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The vaunted 37-match unbeaten record of De la Fuente's men is impressive - matching Italy's world-best mark - even if it does discount a penalty shootout defeat by Portugal in last year's Nations League final.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The discount had disappeared from the company’s website by Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Grocery Outlet was founded in San Francisco in 1946 as a discount grocery store chain selling overstock of limited-time or holiday food items.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
At such a discount, however, some hedge funds may seek to short the SK Hynix ADR while going long the ordinary shares and hoping the spread between the two may contract.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“There’s a Decker discount on the back. Everything is free, if you can actually believe that.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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Oasi, which ran an "Olympic discounts" campaign in January and February, was fined 500,000 euros.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
There were challenges on the crude side from tighter discounts and other market dynamics, but strength on the product side “more than offset it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Plus, AI giants offer discounts, and college kids are doing startups instead of summer internships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The platform works with businesses to offer discounts while also allowing users to share information about accessible venues through an interactive map, Stephanie said.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
In all the CountDowners feeds I’ve read, the Deckers go to five-star restaurants expecting to be treated like kings with courtesy meals, but are only ever offered discounts.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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This is discounted back to determine whether the stock is currently trading at an attractive price, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
While Russia managed to guard its upstream assets from Chinese ownership, Beijing held the upper hand on pricing, securing a heavily discounted rate tied to oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The community larder offers a membership scheme whereby the surplus produce can be bought at discounted rates, and Steele said the volunteers had been trying to "save as much food from the bin as possible".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The FBI’s Phoenix office on Wednesday said some ransom notes relating to the February disappearance of Nancy Guthrie were potentially “legitimate,” while others have been discounted as “extortion attempts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Mama looked up, addressing those very stars Dedd had already discounted.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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“If demand moderates even at the margin, or if supply is added back too quickly, the old addiction to fare sales and discounting could return.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Management has said that it has underinvested in its stores in China and gotten trapped in a discounting war there, and that it needed to do more to connect with consumers locally.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
We also should consider treating food like medicine, with insurers and government payers reimbursing or heavily discounting healthy food and dietary programs that clearly lead to disease regression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Western Digital declined to say whether it had similarly suspended discounting.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
It was still not dark enough for Quentin to start, not yet dark enough to suit Miss Coldfield at least, even discounting the twelve miles out there and the twelve miles back.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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