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research

[ri-surch, ree-surch] / rɪˈsɜrtʃ, ˈri sɜrtʃ /




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"The decline in market perception of Shein reflects slower revenue growth amid a slew of geopolitical challenges as well as increased competition," Lorraine Tan, Morningstar's Asia director of equity research, said in a note.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

Sell-side analysts face continual pressure to remain in management teams’ good graces, as their research is partially informed by one-on-one meetings with corporate leaders.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

About 94% of the fiber laid during that period was “dark”, or unused at the time, according to Terry, who leads AI research as part of his role.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

The research was published in Physical Review Letters.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

She’d forced him into a six-month-long joint research effort that far exceeded the scope of the two-page paper the homework assignment had called for.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

In the original, Hudson played a magazine journalist called Andie who researches an article about modern dating.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Lucy Qin, a postdoc at Georgetown University who researches privacy, pushed back against this framing: “Shorter-term fixes can band-aid the immediate problem but do not address a long-term pattern,” she said.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

Mia village emerged in 1966 after the first blind fortune-teller settled there, according to the Seongbuk Cultural Centre, which researches the district's history.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Chinese authorities have charged a China-born American seismologist who researches underground nuclear tests with espionage after secretly detaining him in late 2024, according to the Massachusetts man’s supporters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

I knew Mrs. Joe’s housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

As he researched, Barton said he was shocked to find that the majority of the founders were deeply devout, rather than the religion-shunning men he had learned about.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Emma Connolly, an academic who has researched this at the Digital Speech Lab at UCL, isn't sure.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Pal researched multi-GPU parallelization, or ways of stitching many chips together, at Nvidia, and later co-founded Auradine, a bitcoin miner, where he designed what he describes as the lowest-voltage chip ever shipped.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Shields had researched and found information online suggesting the nearby southern entrance was less crowded.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

In all the past Ravenskillian Black Moon Ceremonies she’d researched in preparation, not one showed an example of best friends sorted into different covens.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

Caravan is researching how illnesses like cancers and chronic diseases can be better detected - work that will now be done out of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Cotlar compared her rhetoric to a conservative anti-communist newspaper publisher he’s been researching: Walter Huss.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

I was in my home office, researching a story about the golden era of Mexican music.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Plus, I didn’t waste hours researching and booking a la carte accommodations myself, where I could easily lose track of the trip’s total price tag.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

She reminds me of myself—wanting to be the best, researching and plotting and planning to make sure I am ahead of everyone.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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