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compelling

[kuhm-pel-ing] / kəmˈpɛl ɪŋ /


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One of those headwinds is that “a compelling show” can be a relative term.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

That closed loop—a compelling business in the current environment—appears undervalued, with Gold.com sporting a $1.3 billion market capitalization and trading at just 13 times earnings.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

Lana Sinapayen added, "Even if life elsewhere is fundamentally different from life on Earth, its large-scale effects, such as spreading and modifying planets, may still leave detectable traces. That's what makes this approach compelling."

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Yet it omits that the FDA also said it would entertain an accelerated approval based on a single-arm trial if the results were compelling, Replimune chair Philip Astley-Sparke tells us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

One of the most compelling accounts of the postemancipation period is The Strange Career of Jim Crow, written by C. Vann Woodward in 1955.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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