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The cooling of tensions could draw U.S. investors back to Chinese stocks—after wariness about tit-for-tat retaliations between the two superpowers—and boost that market.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

And despite consistently pushing forward against a slick counter-striker in Adesanya, Strickland was able to avoid the majority of the champion's retaliations.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2023

Chastain got into both of them at different points, leading to a series of on-track retaliations.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2022

She and most people I interviewed for this column asked for anonymity, because private enterprises are easy and vulnerable targets for government retaliations.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2022

And they are so absorbed in alternate retaliations and in competitive cruelties that they seem, for the time being, blind to the rights of neutrals and deaf to the appeals of humanity.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various



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