gain
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The $164 level implies a roughly 21% gain.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Food posted its largest monthly gain since August 2022.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Losing Catherine to Edgar, the heir of Thrushcross Grange, prompts Heathcliff, the perpetual outsider, to vow vengeance; he maneuvers to gain financial control of both houses with the aim of destroying each one’s inhabitants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Radio Bar's loss was VfB Stuttgart's gain, as Tuchel threw himself into his new life as a youth coach.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Hampden had assembled a crack team which—like one of those commando forces in the movies, made up of desperate fugitives, men with freedom to gain and nothing to lose—proved virtually invincible.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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