stable
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These would include perp contracts for the USD and euro, adding for Kalshi’s stable of available perp contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
But the singer is reportedly stable and doing well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
When the researchers deliberately flexed the membrane, they observed stable voltage signals.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
"I am in no doubt their quick actions gave the young girl a fighting chance at survival," Stevenson said, adding that she is now in a stable condition in hospital.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
She had barely looked at him since they'd run away from the stable, and she couldn't bring herself to look at him now.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
If anything, they’re underworked, said Cornelius “Neil” Byrne, who has worked in the industry for 60 years and owns the stables on West 37th Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
At 62, he operates and co-owns one of the last remaining stables that house the iconic Central Park carriage horses.
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
"I just love him so much. It's amazing seeing a horse in London; you don't see them unless you go to the stables."
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Our windows overlooked the stables, not the busy courtyard with its many diversions.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
Plus, the bond was thousands of times stabler than that of the next-strongest naturally occurring molecular suitor.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2021
Speaking in a video message, she called on them to create a "safer, stabler future" for the planet.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2021
“But the mechanism allows Earth to maintain a stabler and more benign environment overall.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
But the thought flits through my mind, There have got to be stabler things than love.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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
After 55 years of a generally prosperous "continuing revolution," Mexico has become the stablest major state in Latin America and an outspoken independent in international affairs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Reincarnate, trained by Yakteen, will be the only horse regularly stabled in Southern California to run in the Derby.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
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
An unnamed filly trained by Jorge Abreu and stabled in Barn 86 was sent to an equine hospital track after coming down with a fever.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Strict Covid-19 protocols are in place, and Irish-trained runners have been stabled at Haydock Racecourse.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2021
The shed was open on that side and I could see that some mules were stabled there.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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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