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Executives are trying to convince Wall Street that GM can generate piles of cash while still pouring money into new vehicles and technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Elevated levels of capital expenditures across the AI landscape have been a source of concern among investors who are unsure whether companies can generate returns sufficient to justify the investment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
In response, he created a series of photographic collages that showed Black boxers battling corporate towers — figures that generate wealth attempting to take down the symbols of its accumulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said this month that the city's capacity to generate electricity had been "destroyed", despite repairs since last winter.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The company has produced more than 250 specials and estimates it currently generates just under $10 million annually in gross profits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
"At high speeds underwater, a torpedo generates significant noise, making it easier to detect," Yang said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Here is how it works: The central bank takes the policy-rate path implied by financial-market prices for the years of the forecast and generates outcomes for growth, employment and inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
The recycled materials industry supports more than 600,000 U.S. jobs and generates $184 billion in economic activity annually.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
What generates the diversity of the natural world?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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A potential Tesla–SpaceX merger has generated a lot of speculation, with Barclays analyst Dan Levy recently suggesting that it’s almost a done deal.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Social media and marketing expert Joel Marlinarson says the moment was well-engineered and generated "a lot of conversation" on what it means for the "future of modelling and social media".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Talarico's conversational style and command of scripture have generated viral social media clips, while a two-hour appearance on comedian Joe Rogan's hugely popular podcast in 2025 introduced him to an audience beyond traditional Democratic circles.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
We generated something like two, three billion views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Then it was back to Paris to work on the peace treaty ending the war, an experience that generated his lifelong enmity toward Franklin, who found him insufferably austere and obsessively diligent.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The UK is one of the world's leading fintech hubs, the CMA said, generating more than £214 billion in turnover and supporting more than 360,000 jobs.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
But nearly five years of war has seen that dramatically slashed, although the current generating capacity remains unclear.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
“It’s a foundational study about the chemistry of plastics interacting with the most common chemical, water, and it’s important because it really does show that these things are capable of generating hydroxyl radicals,” Campen said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The strong updrafts inside these clouds can disturb the surrounding atmosphere, generating waves that travel upward into the stratosphere and mesosphere.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
He was buying equipment to make his collection of cars simpler, but he wasn’t generating the kind of revenue necessary to support the costs.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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