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prospect

[pros-pekt] / ˈprɒs pɛkt /




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The film stars James Rottger and Elle Watson as Cameron and Eilidh - mismatched flatmates who face the prospect of parenthood after a one-night stand.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

And in qualifying the difference was a stark 0.314secs, making more likely the prospect of the 66-point gap in the championship between them extending still further on Sunday.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Grant, the youngest, is a three-star receiver prospect at Santa Margarita High with offers from the likes of USC and Oregon.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

“The continuing impasse in negotiations between the United States and Iran delays the prospect of a normalisation of flows into next year,” it said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Consequently, we need to think of science as being the result of an evolutionary process where good science has had, over the last five centuries, a better prospect of survival than bad science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

"There is no plan B" a former government adviser told me, so could a slowdown wreck future prospects here in Britain?

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

The U.K.’s key interest rate looks restrictive at the current level, lowering the prospects of the BOE raising rates in 2026, ING economists said in a note.

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

If demography were destiny, then the long-term prospects of these countries’ equities would be dismal.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Both prospects filled him with equal fear and depression.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

On Svalbard, a Kautokeino drilling company prospected for material that, two years later, wouldn’t be worth the money it costs to extract.

From Scientific American Nov. 18, 2019

I've prospected, or looked for gold, in many places in this country.

From Two Boy Gold Miners or, Lost in the Mountains by Frank V. Webster

The city tries to keep its idiosyncratic businesses going while prospecting for newcomers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 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

As I flesh out the day’s register, as I am tonight, I feel as if I am desperately prospecting for an alibi, one mine more than Kwang’s.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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