prospect

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There was confusion over which buttons to press as they wrestled with the mystery of how to reload a SmarTrip card—all of it intensified by the prospect of missing their train.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

The peer group broadly slid as investors fretted over the prospect of higher fuel prices for longer as the war in Iran dragged on.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Their scouting led them to Nacua, an under-the-radar prospect who played college football at Washington and Brigham Young.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

The prospect of the U.S.-Iran war ending in two to three weeks has reinvigorated risk-on sentiment, the team adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

At first, one triplet seemed to overlap with another—making the prospect of a simple code impossible.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee