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company

[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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"In France and Italy, they are hiring, whereas in Germany, we are only cutting jobs," Bremm lamented, saying that governments in Paris and Rome seemed to be lobbying the parent company more aggressively.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

From Bare’s farm, the company wanted 463 acres at $48,000 apiece.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

"I'm going to vote for Bolsonaro's son," said William Ramos, 40, owner of a school transport company who said he works seven days a week, 12 hours a day, for "a better life."

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

The company could find the land elsewhere, and community relations were on its mind.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

"I agree. I will join the company to make the numbers even."

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Other shipping companies have transited the Arctic passage before, with Denmark's Maersk the first to do so in 2018.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Hengli and other similar Chinese companies are able to buy the oil at a steep discount to market prices, boosting profits.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Major shipping companies including France's CMA CGM, Switzerland-headquartered MSC and Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd have pledged to "avoid Arctic trans-shipment routes".

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

The Sunday Telegraph leads with new plans "backed by the government" which could see water companies "given the green light to increase bills at times of high demand".

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

He took on big, monopolistic companies, deeming them “hurtful to the general welfare.”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

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

And companying so much with rich people would fill her mind with vanity.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Amanda Minnie Douglas




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