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Dunkin’ owner Inspire Brands originally considered a late 2026 or early 2027 IPO, other people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
A realistic foreign policy should also recognize that fundamental principles still matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
So will Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to another person familiar with the matter.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Following his formal complaint, the company investigated and told Khan on 24 August there was evidence to support his claim and steps were being taken to address the matter.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
In a matter of days, we’ll reach the river.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"There is commitment from both sides to resolve the outstanding matters."
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
What matters is whether the cost of borrowing is outpacing economic growth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
But then something will happen that reminds me of life’s sheer unpredictability, and that matters of the heart are purely unknowable.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
But leverage matters, and the three clocks increasingly determine it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
It was an odd slant, since at that point Bobby had no intention of isolating himself or turning down money; he was just tending to personal matters that he’d neglected for years.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Sometimes it’s just an ordinary object that bears witness to something that mattered.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
"People want to know that everyone's life matters, right? They want to know that Colleen's life mattered," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
All that mattered was playing the character I wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But then Webb, who is from Northern California, grew up with the rivalry and, as the longest-tenured Giant, pitched against the Dodgers in games that mattered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Those who held that Copernicanism was literally true, however, insisted that in this case the truth of the hypothesis mattered.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"Several analysts argue that the second-quarter number itself may end up mattering less than what management says about the quarter ahead," said Axel Rudolph, a market analyst at IG.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
We’ll see several startling upsets in this round that won’t end up mattering, along with a disheartening number of 0-0 and 1-1 draws.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Remove any of those, and the revenue numbers stopped mattering.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
At its core, mattering answers a fundamental question: Does my life make a difference?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
Proving the Theorem, in short, required more mattering than Colin brought to the table.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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