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The company announced a loss of 6 cents a share, compared with a loss of 28 cents a year ago and narrower than Wall Street’s expectation for a loss of 7 cents.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

From the tee, you have a choice to hit down the wide and welcoming left fairway or the narrower right one, which is a more direct path to the green.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

In a bit of good news, a narrower measure of inflation that omits volatile food and energy costs, known as the core PCE, rose 0.2%.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

The result is a wide range of forecasts but a narrower conclusion: Iran hasn’t run out of storage yet, but it is increasingly having to create more of it.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The passage seemed to be getting narrower, even as the amount of copper increased.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi