litany
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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
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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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