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moat

[moht] / moʊt /
NOUN
ditch
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This seemingly blew a hole in the moat around IBM’s legacy business and Krishna’s hybrid strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Up until now, the primary moat for OpenAI and Anthropic was simple: By comparison, their competitors’ products weren’t very good.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

"This gives them profitability that helps to produce a moat between them and smaller firms" who cannot maintain the same level of spending and research investment, he said.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

The real Nvidia moat was never just the silicon; the software locks developers in.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

I could smell her next to me, the sweat and the algae from the moat, her shampoo like lilacs, and the smell of her skin like crushed almonds.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Arya expects that Nvidia’s earnings report in August will show investors that the company still has “its moats in products, pricing and supply chain,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

Success requires breaking through large customers’ loyalties and Nvidia’s defensive moats.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

That stands to reason, given that higher-quality companies with deeper moats tend to go public early, triggering a barrage of followers that might not be as strong.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

VanEck CEO Jan Van Eck argues the memory-chip stocks don’t have competitive moats, and notes their profit explosion is driven by temporary pricing power over sales volumes.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

He believed that as we walked, the world of objects unfurled before us like the painted scene for a play, turrets, and moats, and topiary aisles slapping down into place just before we would arrive.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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