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reason

[ree-zuhn] / ˈri zən /








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Fund managers interviewed in the media routinely cite strong earnings growth as a reason to keep buying stocks, even when valuations look stretched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

This weaseling is probably the same reason that the court teed up Section 2’s constitutionality in an obscure order issued late on a Friday afternoon in August last year.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026

Crill says there’s no more reason now to avoid the 60/40 portfolio because of concern about what inflation would do to bonds.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Wambalo believed the reason for Meta's ending the work was that it didn't want workers speaking out about human workers sometimes reviewing content captured by the smart glasses.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

Perhaps this was the reason he felt a strange, inexplicable kinship with the human.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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