discount
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Perhaps the most meaningful part of James’s deal with Philadelphia now is that the Sixers brought him in at such a discount.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The 20% business rates discount will not apply to the "very largest" live music venues.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The discount had disappeared from the company’s website by Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
“With the stock trading at a discount to historical levels on several metrics, we think the upside case for BLK remains attractive,” said the Goldman team.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
In early 2005, when he became interested, it traded, briefly, at a 50-cent discount to gas.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Company owner Tatiana Kim has promised "not to abandon" the sellers, and she has offered temporary discounts and waived shipment fees, but this has done little to calm fears of further attacks.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
When the patents expire for biologic medicines, the “biosimilars” meant to drive down prices typically arrive at modest discounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Dubai will offer more than $800 worth of discounts and deals to residents who bring friends and family to visit, the emirate's media office said, as months of war have battered its tourism sector.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Adey said she thinks it would be possible to eliminate having good drivers pay for tracking discounts by setting up separate “risk pools” that don’t mix the two populations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“But I think they have special discounts for families who can’t afford full admission. All that kind of info is on their website.”
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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Joseph A. Gabelli described an approach that combines discounted valuations for companies with additional “catalysts” to send stock prices soaring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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 researchers devised a market-beating strategy for exploiting this discovery, buying those stocks that their LLM suggested would rise as the market fully discounted the pure news, and shorting stocks the model projected would fall.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 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
We’d discounted theories one, two and eight by checking them out.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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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
Nike’s digital business has faltered, and it has tried to refashion that segment into a destination for higher-priced fare, rather than discounting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Despite competing against industry heavyweights with thousands more locations and colossal marketing budgets, regional chain executives said that higher quality and more loyal clientele have kept traffic strong without heavy discounting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The average for 2025's 24 grands prix, discounting sprints, was 66.9.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Nicole took the first lead, and it went smoothly for the first ten minutes, discounting the wind, the stinging rain, and Chase’s throbbing front tooth, which the pain pills had done nothing to help.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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