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stock

[stok] / stɒk /






NOUN
investment in company
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But investors sold off stock on Thursday after financial analysts said the results were not quite as strong as those seen in an earlier, much smaller trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The dollar is at 156.32 yen, down from Y157.19 as of Thursday’s Tokyo stock market close.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Treasuries remain the ultimate safe haven in times of trouble including Thursday’s tech stock rout.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The more valuable the stock, the bigger its influence on the daily direction of the index, which is weighted by market capitalization.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Until March 14, the stock market had given the big Wall Street firms the benefit of the doubt.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

A basket of AI-linked stocks fueled $138 billion in paper gains for 13 of the largest public-pension funds between the end of 2022 and June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The basket of stocks, which doesn’t include many AI-infrastructure providers or software companies, drove roughly 57% of the funds’ collective U.S. stock gains in the period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Those figures also leave out additional AI exposures through international stocks, private equity or the billions raised through private debt deals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“There’s so much gain to be realized,” Reid said of highflying tech stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The man led me to the stocks, then untied my hands and pointed.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The shop owner who stocked pens and books for schoolchildren was, a neighbor tells her, the “kindest man.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Lakers have stocked their team with versatile perimeter defenders to help complement their offensive-minded backcourt of Doncic and Reaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Rather than serving as homes for protective ants, some of the plant chambers had effectively become nurseries stocked with prey for developing wasp larvae.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Residents on Sunday stocked up on essentials such as drinking water and food as the storm approached.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The rest of the hold was stocked with crates, barrels, burlap sacks.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

He added that the government was launching a "national resilience conversation" to raise awareness, including advice for households like stocking up on food, bottled water and first aid supplies.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Retailers are stocking a wide assortment of policies for the AI shopping agents suddenly headed for their online doors, the WSJ Leadership Institute’s Patrick Coffee reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But the analysts said retailers would likely need greater proof that those products could actually sell before stocking the items on their shelves.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Police are also racing to harness the technology, putting on training courses and stocking up on the machines and counter-drone devices such as handheld jammers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The diver in his stocking cap was sitting in the grey motor-boat belonging to the harbour-master.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier


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