prospect
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That raises the prospect of gas-price relief being short-lived.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
As Ms. Du Feng shows us, the prospect is horrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Although it raises the prospect that Burnham could secure a clean sweep of union support, Unite said its future support for his premiership would be conditional upon action for "workers and communities".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
In this case the bet is on the distant prospect that government approvals would eventually make the project real.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
And they did: “My friends inform me that Mr. A. speaks of me with great friendship,” Jefferson observed, “and with satisfaction in the prospect of administering the government in concurrence with me.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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With such dire prospects, the Rohingyas' only hope is to get out to another country.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Netflix on Thursday reported higher revenues and profit in the second quarter as it sought to assure investors about its growth prospects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
So he likes the long-term business prospects for a company that “focuses on the I-35 corridor, with a mandatory piece in the growth mechanics.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Andriesz spotted correspondence, external where Epstein had directly asked the HWL account: "what do you think the prospects for adfin are?"
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The communities and schools from which they come fail to prepare them for the workforce, and once they have been labeled criminals, their job prospects are forever bleak.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
Britain prospected Peruvian bark trees and grew them in India, having first transplanted them to Kew, one of many botanical gardens that served as a center for medical and colonial botany.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2018
Miners prospected for gold and other minerals across Owyhee County starting in the 1860s, drilling into the hills of the Owyhee Front until World War II slowed the work to a standstill.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2018
"You have prospected all over the ridge?" continued the woman, impatiently.
From Gabriel Conroy by Harte, Bert
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
Though “mine” implies tunnels, the prospecting at La Ciénega took place over a vast area — about 14,000 acres — largely near the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
In a more modern twist, there’s also social-media gold: the biggest YouTube accounts devoted to prospecting boast more than half a million followers.
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
Inside, the walls were decorated with real prospecting tools.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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