peg
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They peg the cost at $266 per device because of the complexities that come with making the display foldable.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Police had falsely accused Walters of the crime simply to knock him down a peg?
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Estimates peg compliance costs at 1% to 2% of a company’s revenue in the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
A massive parasitic outbreak has taken Taco Bell down a peg, and now it has to rebuild its momentum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Then he stuck in a peg and instructed, “You hold this in. Do not let it move. I beg you for not let it move.”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
“Talladega Nights” pegs this missing link between America’s urban past and its exurban future from its opening seconds, putting a quote about “hot, nasty, badass speed” in the mouth of New York Swell Eleanor Roosevelt.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The rebuilt 51-foot-long ship with two masts, which launched in 2022, is mostly held together the old-fashioned way, with wooden pegs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s survey pegs the decline at about 17.5 percent within city limits during that period.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
In the following months he bought accessories such as awning screw-in pegs for £15.98 and wheel clamps and keys for £119.98.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Jackets and hats hung from pegs on the wall.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
Chatfield asked the Los Angeles Times in 1997 in response to criticism from community members and some local officials who pegged his nonprofit as inconveniencing residents by helping homeless people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Blown away in a 26-minute opening set, fourth seed Gauff was twice pegged back from a break up in a scrappy second set before coming through a 16-point tie-break to force a decider.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Authorities also have filed criminal charges against a Google software engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, who allegedly earned $1.2 million trading Polymarket contracts pegged to who would be revealed as the most searched people of 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
This year’s heavy volume of long-dated corporate supply has been pegged as a key factor in the $31 trillion Treasury market’s selloff this summer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The linens pegged out on the line were froze stiff as wood and covered in a lacework of ice.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Public IB maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian plantations sector, pegging Sarawak Plantation and TA Ann as top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Goldman Sachs strategist on Thursday charted five-year rolling returns on the all-important 10-year Treasury note — pegging it as the worst such period for returns in more than a century.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hong Leong maintains an overweight rating on Malaysian tech sector, pegging Vitrox Corp.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The sides don’t even agree on how much that is worth, with his lawyers pegging it at $4.9 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
They made pegging the clothes to the line clumsy work but kept my fingers from freezing solid.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
