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given

[giv-uhn] / ˈgɪv ən /


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Going into Nvidia’s earnings report later this month, Monaghan sees a buying opportunity given the stock has been battered.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Enjoyment of “Club Kid,” given the creaking plot machinery, depends almost entirely on whether you find these folk enjoyable to spend two full hours with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

In the past few months, it has given the green light to commutations of sentences of life without parole so that they “can be eligible for a parole suitability hearing.”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

Henry's father, Mark Nowak and the rest of his family said they had been given "a life sentence of grief"

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

It was Father’s train ticket, given at the moment itself.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

His thinking begins instead with three separate givens: God, world, human being.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

They call each other wives, because in 2025 same-sex marriage and parenting are givens, not distant fantasies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

But coach Bev Priestman suggested that growing parity means there are no givens.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

Things once viewed as inconceivable are now unavoidable; things once taken as givens are now in doubt.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020

The givens, all I’d been taught, fell away like so many covers when you sit up in bed.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez


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