prospect
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He added: "We might go again next season... it's quite a terrifying prospect if we're not... on the ball."
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The most intriguing prospect is Oklahoma State’s Drew Mestemaker, who wasn’t the starting quarterback of his high school team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
He shrugged off the prospect of more fighting.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
These shots can be made quicker than egg-based shots, a prospect virologists say could allow the company to more swiftly update its vaccine to better align with strains spreading during the respiratory season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Adèle ran quite wild in the midst of it: the preparations for company and the prospect of their arrival, seemed to throw her into ecstasies.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The typical example of “Anakin-posting” expresses rage at a stagnant economy or lack of prospects by sharing images of Christensen’s Anakin looking stoic.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
You can always keep up to date with the long-range prospects by checking our latest monthly outlook.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
They also believe investors have become too pessimistic about tech companies’ earnings prospects.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
But their position-player prospects, including three outfielders at the top of the list, are blocked by veterans already on the Dodgers’ roster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
There are countless geek employment prospects at help desks, in maintenance and tech support.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Small fragments of the specimen were "prospected" using ultraviolet lights at night.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
Bolsonaro’s father prospected for gold at Serra Pelada, where Dirceu first saw gold mining, and the president sometimes draws on his upbringing to rally support from prospectors.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
“Well, I’ve pretty carefully prospected the interior of this animal,” said Frank, showing the now perfectly clean mummy.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden
Egypt's border force said in June that it had seized 86 tonnes of gold ore along with amateur prospecting equipment.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The city tries to keep its idiosyncratic businesses going while prospecting for newcomers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In January, the government proposed opening 70 new blocs to prospecting, more than half of them in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
In Sacramento, Cody Blanchard, 35, had been gold-hunting for several years in Northern California before starting his own business selling equipment and offering prospecting tours last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
He comes at last to a settlement, or perhaps is found by other prospecting men.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Vocabulary lists containing prospect
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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