proverbial
Example Sentences
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“Like the proverbial frog that doesn’t feel the water becoming increasingly hotter, many North American brands are inching into more treacherous positions with their customers’ loyalty,” Forrester Principal Analyst Pete Jacques wrote in the report.
Investors shouldn’t put all their proverbial eggs in the AI basket.
From Barron's
And that likely means that AI will no longer be the proverbial tide lifting all boats in the stock market.
From Barron's
“So just like that, the proverbial genie is out of the bottle and it’s on videotape that I’m going to UCLA,” Easley would recall many years later.
From Los Angeles Times
From a broader perspective, sentiment is resetting quickly, which should eventually set the stage for stocks to reclimb the proverbial wall of worry.
From Barron's
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