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Early investors often have astronomical gains on paper—SpaceX, for instance, was worth a measly $30.5 billion in 2018—but selling shares on the secondary market can get clunky.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
An AI double with a supervisory role could create legal headaches by misstating employment rules, for instance.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
In other parts of the world these storms are given different names - for instance, typhoons in the north-west Pacific, near Japan and China, or cyclones in the Indian Ocean and around Australia.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Since 1970, tsunamis have claimed more than 250,000 lives worldwide, notably the Boxing day tsunami in 2004 in the Indian ocean and the tsunami on March 11 2011 in Japan, for instance.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
They didn’t account for a borrower’s income, for instance.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
