stable
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“With cracks broadly stable quarter on quarter at multidecade highs…the sequential jump came from a lower crude basket cost, better margin capture and higher throughput,” analysts Bineet Banka and Abhishek Bhandari write in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Even as some populations maintained relatively stable genetic ancestry within their home regions, they could also participate in broader networks of genetic exchange spanning considerable distances.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Gyurov, 50, said after voting in Blagoevgrad that he had voted for a "secure, stable and European Bulgaria".
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
She took part in medical trials at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and said that while there was no cure, continual treatment was now keeping her cancer stable.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
“I’ll go out through the stable yard,” I say.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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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
He bought the West 37th Street stables in 1979.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“We could sell the stables and have a nice comfortable life,” West Side Livery stables manager Tony Salerno said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The trees parted, revealing the field that lay between the game park and the stables.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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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
“Whether it is stabler than we thought, or we just haven’t hit the air pocket yet, I don’t know,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
For crypto hedge funds, which tend to trade on swings in price, stabler values also offer diminishing chances to profit.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2022
Plus, the bond was thousands of times stabler than that of the next-strongest naturally occurring molecular suitor.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 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
In the fickle high-risk arena of television, where admiration swiftly changes to boredom or dislike, Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has been the stablest on-screen presence of them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Blessed is drudgery, the homely mother of Patience, "that young and rose-lipped cherubim," of quiet endurance, of persistency in well-doing, of all the stablest elements of character.
From The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis by Ellice Hopkins
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
The documents included appraisals from properties in various states, and a list of horses and the ranches where they were stabled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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
“People have forgotten what horses are like, what they are capable of,” said Hansen, who drives three horses stabled in Manhattan.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
He watered the horses and stabled them and pitched hay into the manger.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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She said: "I have 12 horses to look after - four of them are elderly and require stabling most nights."
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
Churchill Downs has suspended him for two years and the New York Racing Association has indefinitely suspended him from stabling and racing at Saratoga, Belmont and Aqueduct.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
Oh, Laurel, owned by TSG, will get about $173 million in improvements to include a new clubhouse, stabling areas and a synthetic track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
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
"Innkeep," a servant's voice called out behind her, "we have horses that want stabling, and my lord of Lannister requires a room and a hot bath."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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