prospect
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Malard will likely be leading the line, but Bompastor's ambitions for her former academy prospect are not limited to club level.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
The prospect of the three leaders meeting to negotiate Ukraine’s future without the country’s leadership at the table had alarmed officials in Kyiv.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The prospect of Huang’s ouster as CEO leaves two open questions on Wall Street: What would become of Nvidia without him?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
He said that currently "you've got hundreds of thousands of young people stuck in a benefit system that is trapping them in poverty, giving them no prospect of prosperity or a job".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The indefatigable bell now sounded for the fourth time: the classes were marshalled and marched into another room to breakfast: how glad I was to behold a prospect of getting something to eat!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Others were more sanguine about the industry's prospects.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
This was ahead of analysts’ prospects of 8.33 billion euros, according to consensus provided by the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Some job applicants in England and Wales would no longer need to declare criminal convictions they received as children under government proposals designed to improve the employment prospects of rehabilitated young people.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Government science funding and hiring had dried up, and the prospects for graduates had dimmed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
McKim had opened this meeting with a wandering talk about the fair and its prospects.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Small fragments of the specimen were "prospected" using ultraviolet lights at night.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
Bolsonaro’s father prospected for gold at Serra Pelada, where Dirceu first saw gold mining, and the president sometimes draws on his upbringing to rally support from prospectors.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
Then Mashonaland was prospected, and forts built and roads were made, and the telegraph was carried on to Salisbury, giving connection with the Cape.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
Egypt's border force said in June that it had seized 86 tonnes of gold ore along with amateur prospecting equipment.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The city tries to keep its idiosyncratic businesses going while prospecting for newcomers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In January, the government proposed opening 70 new blocs to prospecting, more than half of them in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
In a more modern twist, there’s also social-media gold: the biggest YouTube accounts devoted to prospecting boast more than half a million followers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
In 1898, prospecting led him to a nearly vacant trail crossing that the trappers called Edmonton, where he found that the soil was the perfect medium for making brick.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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