sterling

Example Sentences

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With revenue and earnings growing in the double digits, and a sterling balance sheet, “Microsoft is as attractive as it has almost ever been,” he says.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Melodrama doesn’t exactly have the most sterling reputation for discerning cinema viewers.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

UBP cuts duration across all currencies, scales back its sterling duration overlay and reduces exposure to emerging-market local currency bonds, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The independent, nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which has a sterling decades-long record of election forecasting, said the most probable outcome is a wash.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

He read over and over, lingering on each I that was so elaborately curved it looked like a sterling sign.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie