stable
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It also projects stable to slight growth in adjusted earnings per share compared with previous guidance of high single-digit growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
This demonstrated that the surrounding environment was sufficiently quiet and stable to preserve the molecules' quantum coherence for the maximum physically permitted duration.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Haines, 65, the independent member for Indi, is in a critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery at a Melbourne hospital.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“In 2016, I drove out to Los Angeles with no plan, assuming the world would catch me. I couldn’t find stable housing or work. I was broke within four months.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“You’re needed elsewhere. I’m afraid Brother Dansabe’s gout has gotten him again, so in his stead you’re going to supervise the apprentices while they muck out the stable this morning.”
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Spending time with Juni and a cast of new friends at the stables was physically and emotionally therapeutic for Hanawalt, particularly as new issues began to sneak up on her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
At the time, the Hollywood mogul and actress unveiled ambitious plans to dramatically overhaul the estate with a 27,000-square-foot, five-story riding facility featuring a domed roof and underground horse stables.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
A vacant lot between the stables on West 37th and 38th streets recently sold for $94 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Typical livery costs, which are fees for the boarding and care of horses in stables, can be about £800 a month, according to the charity Horse Trust.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
She had seen the final destruction of her stables, her barns dragged off by the storm, but she had managed to keep her house standing.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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This new object is another with a very elliptical orbit, but it is stabler than 2017 OF201, which suggests that no large planet, including a hypothetical planet nine, is significantly affecting its path.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026
But a stabler exchange rate, lower inflation and more robust growth have not yet helped those struggling to make ends meet.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
Plus, the bond was thousands of times stabler than that of the next-strongest naturally occurring molecular suitor.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2021
The Queen has urged world leaders at the COP26 climate summit to "achieve true statesmanship" and create a "safer, stabler future" for the planet.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2021
But the thought flits through my mind, There have got to be stabler things than love.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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Russell and Hawn famously have one of the stablest relationships in Hollywood, so you have to wonder how they looked at this script and thought, “Yup, that seems normal – sign us up!”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2018
It hasn't been the stablest year for MakerBot.
From The Verge ● Jul. 24, 2015
The prior studies simply targeted and featured the stablest, most educated gay couples.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2012
One day, he predicted, Brazil would be one of the "stablest nations of Latin America."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Indeed, by repeated, almost unconscious attestations, it was his stablest trust.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
At the time of the epidemic, more than 80% of the country’s 8.4 million horses were stabled on farms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Afterward, EO is relocated to a farm, where he’s stabled alongside a white stallion whose privileged status doesn’t protect it from human desires and designs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
The 46 horses stabled in the barn are being monitored for fever and other symptoms.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
When I first came into the business, I always looked up to him asked him questions and followed his program because I was stabled next to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2021
He showed me how he wanted the horses stabled and groomed.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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It has offered to fund off-season stabling at Pleasanton and to write races that better fit the makeup of Northern California horses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Soon after, Churchill Downs announced it was suspending Baffert for two years through spring 2023, prohibiting the seven-time Derby winner from stabling or racing at tracks owned by Churchill Downs Inc.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2021
"The likelihood is that, because of its location, most of the early landlords were connected with horses, carriages and stabling," writes Dailey.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2017
Millfield's resources are truly staggering: an equestrian centre, stabling for 50 horses, a 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, Tartan athletics track, playing fields, a putting green, an indoor tennis centre and a fencing salle.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2012
‘Beds for four, and stabling for five ponies, if that can be managed. Are you Mr. Butterbur?’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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