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Trading volume for the end-2026 market is nearing $2.5 million, a respectable figure on Polymarket, which hosts thousands of different prediction markets.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
It’d be more artistically respectable to say I got into comedy through watching great stand-up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Much of respectable academic and policy opinion was firmly behind Team Merkel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The zucchini disappeared almost immediately, leaving behind only a few green flecks and the vague knowledge that somewhere beneath all that chocolate was a respectable amount of produce.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
We were doing fifteen or sixteen miles a day, nothing like the twenty-five miles we had been promised we would do, but still a perfectly respectable distance by our lights.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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