spartan
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“That’s relieving to the market,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
After being consulted by the referee, it appears Tom Izzo asks former Spartan, Paul Davis, to leave his seat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
The war comes to be defined by the Spartan general Brasidas, who goes on to wrong-foot Thucydides in 424 B.C., and Cleon, who may have engineered Thucydides’ exile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
This broke down by degrees, critically in the Sicilian Expedition of 415-413 B.C., when Athens tried and failed to annex Syracuse, a Spartan ally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Beautiful in its own way, I supposed, but Spartan.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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