adverse
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“Our sense remains that in a very adverse shock, tech stocks would still come under pressure.”
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
And there’s a lot of leeway to keep doing so without any adverse tax consequences.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Core PCE inflation could end the year as high as 2.9% in a severely adverse scenario, per Goldman.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Importantly, none of the exercise types were linked to a higher risk of adverse events compared with control groups.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole here; the property has been tied up in a legal dispute since late 2012, and then an additional case was opened in 2018 about adverse possession.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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