formation
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The decision to have a child isn’t primarily a financial calculation, and a one-time payment doesn’t touch the conditions that make family formation feel out of reach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
On the three-year weekly chart, the stock appears to be carving out what could become the right clavicle of a larger bearish head-and-shoulders formation.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Together, the methane and carbon dioxide measurements point to a formation history that differs significantly from that of most comets that originated around our Sun.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
His all-Oxford intellectual formation comes out of the post-“Great Financial Crisis” macro-finance school that views financial crises as driven by leverage cycles, liquidity spirals and risk-taking channels as much as by the traditional business cycle.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
On the other side of the formation, pilot Klava Fomicheva also saw what was going on.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Shape Up: Form
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