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Shares are down 2.7% at $282.64, and earlier touched a 52-week low of $275.13.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“The story in 2026 has not been a low bar. Expectations have moved higher, and companies have continued to clear them by a wide margin,” Rubner says.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The fatal crash was, with a high degree of probability, attributable to a situation from which there was no escape, resulting from insufficient lift and the low altitude above the ground," it said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Tanter even recorded an introduction for Horton’s wedding, announcing the newlyweds as they entered the reception: “‘For the very first time,’” Horton said, dropping his voice low like Tanter’s “‘Mr. Derrin and Elise Horton!’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
We wait for her to pass before we get back to screaming—in a low whisper.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
And Bradley Saunders, North America economist at Capital Economics, said the lower figure was “not disastrous“, adding that a drop in government roles and temporary visa policy changes weighed on overall growth.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The online trading platform’s new 2026 revenue guidance suggests earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization between 490 million and 500 million pounds, RBC says, which would be 16% lower than the Canadian bank’s estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
You’re in your 20s, meaning your income probably hasn’t peaked yet and you can lock in a lower tax rate, too.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
“That means more competition, a cleaner and more reliable grid, and an opportunity to lower costs for everyone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
He stayed in their New York City home near the newspaper’s office in lower Manhattan.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Net of these, Capital Economics figures the debt to GDP ratio will be 109% of GDP in 2027, its lowest level since the financial crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Weekly jobless claims also were steady, while jobs cuts in September were their lowest since 2022, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
At the lowest consumer-friendly rung rest affordable fillers and Botox injections.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
It was Sri Lanka's lowest total in a men's T20 international, worse than the 77 they scored against South Africa in New York in 2024.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Celaena dropped into the lowest curtsy she could give without falling and said in Eyllwe, “Welcome to Rifthold, Your Highness.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
“People see me on the court and they’re like,” he said, then lowed his voice to a whisper, “’Oh, my God!
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The SCA later lowed its demand to $550m, but the owners and insurers reportedly offered to pay $150m.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
They fed us lentils cooked in onion and garlic and thin milk from the water buffalo that lowed outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
Charlie’s mother fol- lowed his voice to the kitchen, where she let him know that she and Charlie were home playing cards.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 22, 2014
The gods, moreover, made queer signs appear: cowhides began to crawl, and beef, both raw and roasted, lowed like kine upon the spits.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
You can hear a gentle lowing of cows.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
When Taylor emerged at the outset of “Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht” via a lowing guttural growl, a wave of grins and giggles spread across the audience like a breeze through a meadow.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022
The American landscape, however, was no longer made up of trees and cows lowing plangently at dusk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing, a chant that sounds like no, no.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
A cow was lowing when he went to sleep.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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