keen
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“The investor base that we’ve met—we’ve met dozens—has been really keen on entering and participating in the prediction markets,” said Pascal Bandelier, co-chief executive and global head of equities at Cantor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bournemouth say Scott is not for sale at any price and it's also understood that Lewis-Skelly, who set up the first goal in the Community Shield win over City, is keen to remain at Arsenal.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
France's Culture Minister Catherine Pegard paid tribute to Altmayer as a "producer with a keen eye, capable of bringing together popular comedy and auteur ambition with the same accuracy".
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Currently, investors are more keen on AI infrastructure stocks than potential AI productivity beneficiaries, Goldman acknowledges.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Beowulf sounded completely sure of himself, for he did have a keen eye for art.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Dr Caulfield said she was "delighted” to see Róis “proudly performing her keens to full houses, with no shame or stigmatisation involved, just audiences loving her bravery and skill".
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Benjamin Wallfisch’s score keens and groans ominously, sometimes dipping into synthy electronic moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
In gratitude, Page tattooed "c keens" – his nickname for Keener – on his body.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
She’s got a beaten-up suitcase at her feet and keens softly into her lap.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2019
The priests walk slowly around the pyre, saying antique prayers, and the crowd, all in black, ignoring the black priests, keens.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
The magic is unique and often biological—many characters have mental or physical enhancements that give them perfect memory or keener senses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
It's not hard to imagine which one the family of the time was keener to remember.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025
What they were keener to talk about was life in Henderson, a city they’d lived in and loved for a long time now—including for the MMA connection.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024
He spoke slowly and a little wearily, but they were too much interested to guess that he was holding back some news of keener interest.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
The event was hosted by Wendy Cutler, a veteran American trade negotiator and one of Washington’s keenest observers of Asian trade policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
For our money, Jim is both the funniest and keenest politics writer in the United States—which is to say, readers, your long national nightmare is over!
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2025
For five years it hosted the country's finest and keenest skateboarders, witnessing flips and tricks as a new subculture boomed in popularity.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
"My generation and those younger than me are the keenest yet for more family time, but our primary concern has got to be paying the bills," McEvoy said.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Father Olufemi would have picked the strongest, fastest, and keenest warriors for such a mission, and they’d prove their worth once in the jungle.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Amid the nonstop drumbeat of hundreds of feet walking together, bagpipes keened, striking an appropriately dignified tone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
But whether the wind produced a lion’s roar, or merely keened or whistled or hummed, at its peak it was clocked by the National Weather Service at Reagan National Airport at 29 mph.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2020
Well, the souls howled and keened, as distressed souls are known to do, since they understood that a garden that nobody visited was not worth cultivating.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
The metal structure keened its mournful note again.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
When he cradled him in both hands, J.W. keened and moaned but didn’t thrash.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Occasionally, Göransson adds a lovely monotone layer of woodwinds or a keening chorus that sounds like the oldest song on Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Shift to Sport mode and the engine will hold at a high, keening rpm, trying to charge the battery faster than the driver can drain it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
The tone of his voice is high, a keening sound.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
The whale groaned, that keening sound that Razi couldn’t quite hear.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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