main event
Example Sentences
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Your investments look like the backup plan, rather than the main event.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The main event will occur at 2:31 p.m.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
This was just the warm-up before the main event an hour later when the floor competition began.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Big banks kicked off earnings season last week, and now the main event for many investors begins: Two of the Magnificent Seven, Alphabet and Tesla, unveil quarterly results this afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
There had been foreshocks, smaller earthquakes that shook the countryside for days before the main event, but there’s nothing unusual about earthquakes in Japan.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
