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The investor response to the calls by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and rival executives to slow down frontier artificial-intelligence development was greeted negatively, albeit not catastrophically, by investors on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Athletic footwear unit sales were down 7% in the three months through July compared with a year earlier, according to Beth Goldstein, an industry adviser focused on footwear and accessories at market-research firm Circana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Things were moving along pretty well until we started to see interest rates go up and started to see rents go down in Austin,” Vela said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
States like Ohio have started to crack down in the past year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
When I’m down, she sings hip-hop songs to me in her opera voice, and I die laughing.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Detroit’s automakers have responded to tariff ups and downs by planning to onshore production of certain vehicles and parts to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
After ups and downs, her condition deteriorated and she died on Aug. 9.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Nine out of 10 of the most popular stocks for hedge funds are megacap tech companies and the ups and downs of the AI sector still drive their performance, their leverage and their positioning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Through years of typical relationship ups and downs, our attraction to each other has hardly wavered.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Well, since you’re referring to them as nouns, just follow the normal rules for making nouns into plurals: Ups and downs and ins and outs, Forevers and nevers and whys.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The storms caused flooding, downed trees and widespread power outages across the Greater Toronto Area, with thousands of people affected.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
That could result in gusty offshore winds, wildfire risks, and downed trees, according to Kristan Lund, meteorologist with the weather service office in Oxnard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
That fire was started by downed power lines due to high winds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
But the new turbojet models can outrun interceptor drones made by Ukraine and must be downed by jet fighters or Ukraine’s limited supply of interceptor missiles, Ukrainian officials say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
After the first wave, Ryoichi Usuzawa clambered over the rubble between his rooftop and another building, holding on to a downed power line to keep from being swept away by the water.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
In 2024, Putin apologised to the president of neighbouring Azerbaijan over the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace, in which 38 people were killed.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Sunday’s downing was the fourth over Romania since the war began in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The charges related to the downing of US civilian planes by Cuban forces on February 24, 1996, when Castro was defence minister.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ratcheting up the pressure, U.S. prosecutors in May indicted former President Raúl Castro on murder charges relating to the downing of two civilian aircraft in 1996.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
An enraged President Reagan called the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 "an act of barbarism."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
