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Here they plot the rise in the 30-year yield versus the S&P 500 and the energy component of the Bloomberg commodity index, on an impressive triple Y-axis.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 28, 2026
Austrian company TRA LEO GmbH & Co KG, which bought the plot, told AFP it had offered to support the creation of a memorial on the site.
From Barron's β Aug. 28, 2026
“The Whisper Man” leans heavily on the twists and turns of its propulsive and menacing plot, which occasionally creaks like stairs to that creepy basement.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 27, 2026
The military requested the seizure of the beach plot near Muskö base in Stockholm archipelago, citing "the threat from Russian drones and the ownership situation of the property".
From BBC β Aug. 25, 2026
This was statistically unusual, but not totally improbable, and was certainly not incontrovertible evidence of a plot.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The chart below plots this mean-reverting tendency of earnings growth rates.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 29, 2026
This is especially true if you overlook the sillier production numbers and hacky plots and focus on the stars’ scenes together.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 25, 2026
They recorded every plant species identified across the meadow and tracked changes within permanent survey plots.
From Science Daily β Aug. 23, 2026
These writers freely borrowed plots, characters and rhetorical devices in the service of their own work.
From Salon β Aug. 23, 2026
In his village, people farmed the tiniest plots outside their homes and planted useful vegetables and herbs.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Then, they plotted his pivot to ceasefire negotiations, on March 22, his acceptance of one on April 7, and his decision to focus on a memorandum of understanding on May 18.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 22, 2026
This month, “Cool Machine,” a riff on 1980s New York in the form of a tightly plotted crime novel, arrives from Colson Whitehead.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 20, 2026
The startup—last valued at $5.5 billion in 2024 in a secondary tender offer led by General Atlantic and Stripes—has plotted out a cluster of new stores in China.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 23, 2026
Tournaments once so defined now blur into adulthood ambivalence, postcards plotted along the timeline of your life, the details growing grainy.
From BBC β Jun. 21, 2026
For months I studied and plotted the data from the plane’s flight recorder, noting the plane’s altitude, speed, acceleration, and so on, measured during the flight.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Earlier, the interior ministry said security agencies had arrested several suspects accused of plotting to interfere with the electoral system.
From Barron's β Aug. 14, 2026
Since then, they've been plotting how to get their comrade home so they can confirm his identity beyond doubt through DNA testing and offer his family a semblance of closure.
From BBC β Aug. 8, 2026
Nonfarm payrolls data for July will be watched especially closely for clues to the Federal Reserve’s rate plotting path, as Chairman Kevin Warsh pivots the Fed away from providing forward guidance.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 7, 2026
The 2015 “Secret Wars” story featured some plotting by Doctor Doom and saw multiverses collide, be destroyed and merge.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 31, 2026
I was back at the master’s, instantly recharged with the familiar, unrelenting tension and the need to escape, but this time I was plotting it together with the other boys.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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