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Economists polled last week by The Wall Street Journal expected a smaller decline to minus 27.2.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"I think the punishment has been very hard on the club for the last season. And to go into a new season on minus four. And the rest is not for me to decide."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
What I’m referring to is simple breadth — the number of advancing issues minus the number of declining issues.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
"In order to achieve this, we used superfluid helium that had been cooled close to absolute zero at minus 273 degrees Celsius," explains Jesse Zhang, lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Papa laughed and said, “It looks like I’m going to be minus another pair of my overalls.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Ponderously disjointed, unnecessarily long, and emotionally distant are its minuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
That’s a slight pullback from March, and the underlying data had both pluses and minuses.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
There are the pluses from capital gains and there are the minuses from capital losses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025
So, as an introvert, what are the pluses and minuses there?
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2025
Pluses and minuses, we get along but we are not close.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
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