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company

[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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The company is even chasing the affluent shoppers who have been priced out of the luxury market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

According to company lore, a retired Swiss triathlete and Ironman champion named Olivier Bernhard couldn’t find a running shoe that met his needs, so he made one himself with a garden hose, scissors and glue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Since it went public five years ago, the company has exploded to more than $3.5 billion in annual sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

On’s stock took a pounding after the recent earnings call when the company said it deliberately sent fewer shoes to retailers to maintain its pricing power—and keep those shoes from ending up on sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

“But I did ten miles last weekend. Quinn Rollerbladed part of it to keep me company, and Eliot ran the last two miles with me.”

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Michael Orange, head of US retail sales for FCA US, said Friday the companies were operating against "a highly competitive industry backdrop."

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

The result is that, outside AI, companies and consumers are being hit by a triple-whammy of higher rates, higher fuel prices and competition from AI firms for staff, equipment and capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

However, prosecutors say, Lui used freight-forwarding companies to ship the high-end servers containing the microchips from Malaysia and Singapore on to China.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"It's certainly going to be tricky for the court to thread the needle," said Sankar, between upholding the administration's position and giving the oil companies what they seek.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The idea behind such companies is among humanity’s most ingenious inventions.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

It handed lucrative contracts to the country’s biggest construction companied.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2016

The companied initially tried to list its shares on the Hong Kong Exchange, which would seem to be a friendly home.

From Time ● Sep. 19, 2014

And presumably it is at least an implication of Bacon's dictum that our poor illiterate lonely hordes are neither companied nor "full", for reading accomplisheth fullness.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2011

Generals and admirals in varied uniforms, sun helmets, marine wool jackets, coveralls, khakis and tin hats, ac companied him on an inspection tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

He kept good order among the men and women that companied with him in the Deer-Slunk.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

As it turned out, the U.S. newsmen ac companying Nixon faced dangers of their own when the Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day.

From Time Magazine Archive

And here she was milking and churning and feeding the hens and companying with Uncle in the barn yard.

From In Orchard Glen by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

For intimacy is the full enjoyment of friendship, and most pleasant is companying with and spending the day with a friend.

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

Sus 1:54 Now then, if thou hast seen her, tell me, Under what tree sawest thou them companying together?

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous




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