grail
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Even so, sonic adventurers, beginning with Leopold Stokowski in the 1930s, experimented with amplification in an obsessive, seemingly quixotic effort to locate a mythical sonic grail on the Cahuenga Pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Paul Regan claimed to have discovered the investment holy grail of high return at low risk, offering investors the chance to earn 10%, even 15% or more annually for up to 10 years, guaranteed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
She recently found the holy grail of shirts for her - the Super Furry Animals-sponsored Cardiff City shirt - a legendary piece of Welsh football and music history.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Everyone treats buy-and-hold as the holy grail because they are anchored to the extraordinary run from 1982 to today.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
I continued to refer to the Zork notes in my grail diary, which reminded me exactly how to make my way through the game’s labyrinth of rooms, passageways, and puzzles.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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And, speaking of holy grails: Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” fetched $32.5 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
One of the holy grails of trucking is to find a way to reduce the one-third of trips that big rigs are believed to spend hauling empty trailers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
“This has been one of the holy grails of remedying the Korean discount, and there’s at least a 50-50 chance of it passing this year,” he says.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
But since then its ambition to track down two holy grails of physics - dark matter and dark energy - have proved elusive and some researchers believe there are cheaper options.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
The seraphs would sing to her And from the River Dip her cool grails of radiant Life.
From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young
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Solo
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Novel Study: The Great Gatsby, Chapters 7–9
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Ready Player One
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