prospective
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The index measuring future sales dropped seven points to 42 and the index charting traffic of prospective buyers posted a three-point decline to 22.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Kentucky holds that prosecutors may not use peremptory strikes to exclude prospective jurors on the basis of race.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
In essence, the neighboring sale upped the ante as far as Behar’s listing is concerned—and also encouraged her agents to start thinking about other ways they could prove the home’s potential to prospective buyers.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
Cal State L.A. will receive $48 million to add more students to its master of social work programs and provide more than 1,000 scholarships and grants for prospective students.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
In that big starting room were forty or fifty other prospective inductees.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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