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
The president started his speech with a litany of boasts.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
They have voiced a litany of complaints about the unfairness of El Chapo’s prosecution and requested that he be sent back to Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Despite that, Neymar's litany of physical issues in recent times means expectations of him are not what they once were.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
In this litany, it was somehow very clear that these jobs, they were the exceptions, and that “service” had mostly been of another kind.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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LeBlanc never moves her camera away from the ground level; there are no policy prescriptions, no litanies of statistics and no melodramatic statements about pity or persistence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
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
And so the Oprah Winfrey-produced, Reginald Hudlin-directed documentary “Sidney” ticks off litanies of both aesthetic and cultural achievements, without ever feeling obligatory.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
The emails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
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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