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Grant Thorton’s Kempe sees the next phase of AI to follow as a matter of discipline, not retreat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Snap, the maker of Snapchat, said in a statement that it was "pleased to have been able to resolve this matter in an amicable manner."
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
As I said, the things that matter – the ability to conduct the analysis, and I don’t mean that just for the big board – we’re able to do that.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
The reasons for El-Sayed’s failure to do that may be a matter of debate, but he will bear the consequences all the same.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Why does it feel like no matter what I do, I’m always caught in the middle?
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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“Facts still matter in a courtroom. Truth still matters in a courtroom. That’s what we saw prevail today,” one of the attorneys, Margaret Donovan, said outside the courthouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
That distinction matters, especially because the research didn’t establish that anyone’s personal habits were being used against them.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Medicare has a two-year lookback period, so your modified adjusted gross income at age 63 matters when it comes to your annual premiums.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Arguably, what matters most is the amount of screen time you get - and what you do with it.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
To make matters worse, one night after a bombing mission, their aircraft got stuck at their intermediate airfield without food and low on fuel.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Denise Lee Yohn, a brand leadership expert and author of What Great Brands Do, isn’t persuaded the rebrand has mattered much at all.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Without Ashby, none of that would have mattered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
While Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich all lost to English teams in last season's elongated Champions League league stage, it has been a very different story when it really mattered.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The old leather place on Eighth Avenue in Chelsea was dark in the way that mattered, a judgment-free room where the only thing anyone asked of you was that you be yourself.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
And it was so dorky and kind of embarrassing, and in the back of my mind I hoped Mikayla was already too far away to hear us, but none of that really mattered.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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“The fundamentals are going to end up mattering a lot more than we are maybe thinking right now.”
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
"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
More recently, there have been signs of the Fed mattering a little more to investors, with stocks stumbling as rate expectations have climbed in response to rising energy prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Remove any of those, and the revenue numbers stopped mattering.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other—maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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