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litany

[lit-n-ee] / ˈlɪt n i /


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Chip company Arm, Flutter and fintech Wise are among a litany of companies to ditch primary listings in London to move across the Atlantic in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Nobody raises their voice; Weist answers the investigators’ litany of questions in an unwaveringly patient, professorial tone, much like the ones she used in her interview with me.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Gordon says his entire career has been a series of comebacks, a litany of fights against the odds.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

The litany of complaints continues, though, and reading between the lines, it’s clear the root of the men’s fury is rejection.

From Slate May 26, 2026

It was, evidently, a plot within a plot, and White suddenly became suspicious of the litany of dead witnesses.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The advanced age of many gangsters often becomes a factor at sentencing hearings, when bids for leniency tend to rely heavily on litanies of medications, impairments, illnesses and other ravages of time.

From Seattle Times Jun. 10, 2023

Because these kinds of litanies are not rare, I get why actor, writer, and producer Issa Rae, the woman behind "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," is over it.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2023

It turned up in the passageways between the holes, when McIlroy often would smack litanies of hands, especially small ones.

From Washington Post Jul. 19, 2019

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic, who died a year ago this Sunday, made exuberant litanies of the city and its dishes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2019

Whether there was any truth to Boori Ma’s litanies no one could be sure.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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