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At a recent analyst call, management reaffirmed its 2026 guidance of oil and gas production of 165-175 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day, up from 156 mboepd last year, the analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

“It’s been a death by a thousand cuts, and this is the last big chomp,” she said.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Based on its own testing, Anthropic predicts it could find “over a thousand more critical severity vulnerabilities and thousands more high severity vulnerabilities.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

After setting aside their first few thousand dollars for emergencies, experts suggest that people start to simultaneously save for retirement as they finish building up their emergency fund.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Why, in a few weeks she would be able to finish the thousand.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr