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lackluster

[lak-luhs-ter] / ˈlækˌlʌs tər /


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Wall Street has praised Intuitive’s competitive moat with surgical robots despite a lackluster stock performance.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

While shares of Amazon have been weighed down by lackluster Amazon Web Services revenue growth, investors seem to be coming around to the company’s cloud capabilities.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

The shrinkage follows lackluster economic performance in 2025, which plummeted the company’s shares by 25% in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Revised data released on March 13 showed that the U.S. economy grew at a lackluster 0.7% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2025, much slower than previously reported.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Burnham was a lackluster student: “the records of the Old Central show his average scholarship to be frequently as low as 55 percent,” a reporter discovered, “and 81 percent seems the highest he ever reached.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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