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prospect

[pros-pekt] / ˈprɒs pɛkt /




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Treasury yields lost steam after reaching multiyear highs on Monday as investors grapple with the prospect of rising borrowing costs amid volatility in energy markets.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Justice Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion that there was "at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority".

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Carney was asked Thursday about the prospect of Canada joining the EU and delivered what he termed a "non-answer," declining to rule out the idea or endorse it.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

The International Energy Agency said Friday that the continuing U.S.-Iran diplomatic impasse and renewed attacks in the Gulf and Bab al-Mandeb have pushed the prospect of a normalization in oil flows into next year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Meg, in the other boat, was delightfully situated, face to face with the rowers, who both admired the prospect and feathered their oars with uncommon ‘skill and dexterity’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Higher pressure looks set to build again for the end of the month, but prospects of a late-September heatwave remain uncertain.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

He oversaw the Heat’s scouting department and evaluation of draft, professional and G League prospects.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

A look at the ‘little tigers’ post-IPO performances suggests that investors aren’t convinced about the GPU startups’ prospects.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

“Vance came away from some of his conversations with deep concerns about the overall strategy and the prospects for success,” the article says.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

Most important, she now had a sponsor, a mentor willing to make her career and prospects for advancement his responsibility.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

Small fragments of the specimen were "prospected" using ultraviolet lights at night.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2023

Bolsonaro’s father prospected for gold at Serra Pelada, where Dirceu first saw gold mining, and the president sometimes draws on his upbringing to rally support from prospectors.

From Seattle Times Jan. 12, 2022

There ain’t a sign of color left there, so pop says; and he’s prospected all through the range 64 on that far side.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

It followed the Palin family engaging in activities such as fishing, prospecting for gold and camping in the region.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

In January, the government proposed opening 70 new blocs to prospecting, more than half of them in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

But with gold prices reaching record highs, he’s taken up a new one: prospecting.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 13, 2025

That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.

From Salon May 18, 2024

He told the FBI that he had just returned from Mexico, where he'd been prospecting for gold.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple




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