interest
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That may start with a quarter-point increase in interest rates at next week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which would signal to markets that the central bank is serious about inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"I look forward to welcoming President Trump to Ireland and to discussing the many issues of mutual interest and reaffirming the strong economic, cultural and people-to-people ties between Ireland and the United States."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I think traditionally Claire has been portrayed as crazy and evil, and that didn’t interest Darko,” Hamilton says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday painted a grim picture for American consumers and is predicted to shape how the Federal Reserve rules on interest rates next week.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Professor Brown and Professor Green, along with a handful of other people on the faculty who had taken a special interest in me, and then the list kind of sputtered to a stop.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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More often, he has stressed how U.S. and Israeli interests sometimes “diverge.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He expects any criticism of US policies to be "vague and indirect", reflecting the sharply divergent interests within the expanded group.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
A brief search of the EU's Transparency Register, to which organisations must sign up, throws up a wild mix of groups representing various interests.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The interests of all these institutions had to be considered as the project moved forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Jonah decided to apply his brainpower to Katherine’s list instead of her love interests.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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"He certainly sends a message that he is passionately interested in his own family's business," University of Minnesota law professor Richard Painter said ahead of the Ireland trip.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Unifor, which represents auto-assembly workers, said Stellantis disclosed during talks on a new collective-bargaining agreement that the company had an interested buyer of the Brampton plant in a Canadian producer of smart-armored vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ethan first became interested in chess when he was six years old after he spotted someone else playing.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Leo G., a 27-year-old, said if Burning Man was what it was 20 years ago, maybe he’d be interested.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
“First place they’d look. Don’t bother to change it though. It’s only silver. We’re interested in saving people, not things.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Trump spoke briefly to reporters on the tarmac ahead of his flight to Dublin saying "we're having a lot of meetings with European leaders and others, so it'll be very interesting time".
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Sometimes the existence of a newspaper story is as interesting as the story itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
It’s an interesting result, and it makes sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ultimately, this study is more than an interesting observation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The interview continues back and forth with the reporter getting increasingly frustrated and the FBI agent refusing to say anything interesting.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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