gun for
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“There is no smoking gun for today’s move, it just happens that the market is chasing the strongest earnings revisions possible, and in the midst of that, short term performance technicals got too extreme,” said the Goldman team.
From MarketWatch
Pretti, who was active in protests after the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in 2020, had carried a gun for several years, according to his ex-wife.
That equates to one gun for every seven Australians, the report says.
From BBC
OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022 was the starting gun for the artificial-intelligence arms race that has lifted up the stock market and unleashed billions of dollars of investment.
From MarketWatch
The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.