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ounce

[auns] / aʊns /
NOUN
one-sixteenth of a pound/28.35 grams
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Spot gold rises 0.4% to $4,188.48 a troy ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Gold futures rose 1.4% to $4191 a troy ounce as traders adjusted positions on interest-rate sensitive investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Today, with gold approaching $4,300 an ounce, this burly trophy could have been exchanged for nearly $13.5 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Gold futures, which often move inversely to the dollar, rose $18, or 0.4%, to $4131.80 a troy ounce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It took every ounce of my willpower, but I did not dive for it.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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