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[im-plahy] / ɪmˈplaɪ /


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“There’s no denying: execution risk seems high, and bearish scenarios imply >50% downside potential,” Potter wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

No value was disclosed for the transaction, but at yesterday’s close it would imply a price of 620 million Canadian dollars, the analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham appeared at Missouri’s homecoming game with a hat bearing a slogan that seemed to imply that transgender women are not actually women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The high times, prosecutors seemed to imply, had been bankrolled by the Roebucks’ cash.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

“No. There is only one thing you can be trying to imply, if I couple your statements with the fact that you present them to me, and that is impossible.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Dan Bird, from cyber security firm Horizon3 says the pop up message the criminals sent implies that their access has gone beyond the Snowflake database.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Despite Dickinson’s well-known struggle to believe, her poem implies a great chain of creation linking art to artist and artist to the Divine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

His price target implies a 46% rise in the stock from its current price of $246.67.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

This implies that the cool gas component might already exist as a reservoir surrounding the galaxy uniformly on all sides.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Such a document implies that a person can exercise that most public of rights—the right to vote— while still keeping apart, unassimilated from public life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

In its early years, Facebook was known to operate under a philosophy of "move fast and break things," but more recently, Zuckerberg implied Meta would balance safety with speed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

In North Carolina, our curiosity would have to be implied.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The bid implied a price of A$27.00 per Northern Star share based on Gold Fields’ closing price on Sept. 11, valuing Northern Star’s equity at A$38.7 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

She added that she often felt dismissed by colleagues who implied she was faking her condition but was lucky that her manager was supportive.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Deterrence implied a kind of balance between the forces of the two superpowers.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Options are implying a rise or decline of 98 basis points for that ETF on Wednesday, which is lower than the 12-month average of a plus or minus 125 basis-point move, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Those features include preventing teen ChatGPT users from engaging in romantic or other language that could encourage " emotional dependence," including preventing the tool from implying that it was in any way conscious.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

But UK defence minister Wes Streeting said the woman only had a "partial picture", implying police were aware of the situation before they were alerted.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The analysts also cut their price target to $30 from $47, with the new target implying room to fall 16% from current levels.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

He said, “I can have anybody I want in my group”— implying that he didn’t want her because she wasn’t good enough—and he mentioned the great Thoroughbred stallion Secretariat.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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