margin
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Its smartphone gross margin deteriorated to 8.5% from 11.5% due to higher prices of key components.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Banks were issuing margin calls, or demands for more collateral to back their lending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“We got Wisconsin wrong- and by quite a margin too,” the firm posted on Aug 12.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It added that the remaining 0.02% margin is not a "real-world misidentification rate", but a boundary where additional human checks filter out potential errors before alerts are sent.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The more bouts you won and the larger the margin you won by, the higher your ranking post-pools.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Xiaomi continues to face headwinds, with pricier memory chips pressuring smartphone margins, and reduced subsidies adding to already subdued consumer demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The weak performance highlights the headwinds Xiaomi continues to face across its major businesses, with pricier memory chips still pressuring smartphone margins, and reduced consumer subsidies adding to already subdued demand in China’s consumer-electronics market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Returning to the pandemic example, corporate profit margins soared after COVID-19 went global.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
"Even a small fee could matter if it changes the incentives of small merchants operating on thin margins," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He read each one carefully, jotting responses in the margins so that a staffer could prepare a reply or forward a concern on to a cabinet secretary.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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