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prospect

[pros-pekt] / ˈprɒs pɛkt /




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In 1974, they reunited for a successful stadium tour and the prospect of a new studio LP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

He packed down alongside Dewi Lake, who put in a player-of-the-match performance on debut, and England prospect Afolabi Fasogbon.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Meta’s stock was up over 10% this past week on the prospect, but we’re not there just yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Araghchi struck a pessimistic tone regarding the prospect of a deal.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Facing the prospect that something else had gone wrong—that Blackie Thompson had sprung loose—he picked up the receiver and heard the urgent voice of one of his agents.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

In the four years since ChatGPT’s breakthrough, generative-text bots have become an unavoidable, discomfiting presence in our most intimate relations—friendships, family ties, romantic prospects.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

These fields of study exposed to artificial intelligence could hurt your job prospects.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

"It was bringing huge hope and future prospects to the people," he said, adding that the country would now have to rethink its dam-building spree.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

China's economy and tech have grown at breakneck speed, but there is plenty worrying its Gen Z, from jobs to romantic prospects to the sheer pressure of keeping up.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

With no other prospects in sight, and the Gestapo on his back, what choice did he have?

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

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

Arctic Drilling ASA, a company owned by a local man, Roy Karlsen, prospected on a ring of mountains that surrounded a fjord.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019

Prospectors Mulligan, Brown, Dowdall, A. Watson, and D. Robertson, got one hundred and five ounces on the Palmer River, which they prospected for twenty miles.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer

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

Though “mine” implies tunnels, the prospecting at La Ciénega took place over a vast area — about 14,000 acres — largely near the surface.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

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

That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.

From Salon ● May 18, 2024

Soon after Thanksgiving, we deployed two reporters to go prospecting.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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