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Coming into Thursday trading, Tesla stock had dropped for six straight days, losing 21% over that span.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
A meager attention span is a big part of the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
And then, in the span of just a few hours on July 25, 2024, his empire came crashing down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
"We were watching our rent double or triple in the span of a year or two," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
In the span of a few blinks, the wall is whole again, as if it’s never been attacked by an Amazon anime prop.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The messages on the phone spanned from November 2023 to March 2025, the detective said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
This time, probes into 60 economies including major partners like the EU and India spanned just four months.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
A national hero of Barbados, he was a legend in the West Indies on the back of a Test career that spanned 20 years, and was knighted soon after his retirement.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
To quantify a career like Neill’s is impossible, but “Jurassic Park” points to a trend that spanned his filmography, even defined it.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Jefferson began to gather, from relatives and newspaper clippings and other records, bits of information about the murder—an endeavor that spanned two decades.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
The joyous event is a tradition spanning over half a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
There is “robust empirical support for the momentum factor over domestic and global stock markets spanning up to 150 years of data,” they wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Taylor’s vegetable empire includes production facilities spanning North America and Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Neill was a consummate character actor, hard-working and driven by a love for his craft, with a filmography spanning decades and roles that touched countless lives.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
My father’s tribal rule had as its fulcrum the constant performing of rituals spanning the range of day-to-day living.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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