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China's economy likely grew at a slower pace than the government's target in the third quarter, an AFP survey of analysts shows, as energy, geopolitical and debt crises stoke fears of a global downturn.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

“The Museum of Lost Things” does what any good museum should—inspire, delight and stoke our curiosity about this strange and wondrous world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Beneath a thin layer of earth, it is hot and the smoke becomes obvious after we stoke the soil.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

It’s the gift that keeps on giving: They stoke the flames, and the flames reward them back.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

They weren’t home five minutes—Mama hadn’t even had time to stoke the fire—when Dusty began to growl.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

In the years that followed, his symptoms worsened and he suffered reoccurring stokes and died from heart failure in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The stronger-than-expected growth stokes the case for the Reserve Bank of Australia to raise interest rates further amid sticky inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Geopolitical tension should drive safe-haven buying, but when it spikes oil, it stokes inflation, which pushes the Fed to tighten — and that’s gold’s kryptonite,” he said, referring to gold’s weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

A pattern emerges: The crowd suspects a problem, then Pangram validates the suspicion, stokes the mob, and sells the solution.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

She stokes it with more hunks of turkey and whole candied yams.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

U.S. manufacturers in October pumped out the most goods — plastics, computers, electrical equipment and so forth — in five years as a growing economy and a revolution in artificial intelligence stoked demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Bushby has been surprised by the interest his return to the UK has stoked.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

“No one’s gonna be stoked to find out it’s just a generic white guy from Florida,” Rispoli, 41, said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Results from Tesla and Meta last week further stoked spending worries and helped drag stocks lower.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

He was humming merrily as he stoked the fire.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

Shares of Alphabet were falling hard in after-hours trading as the company reported a third-quarter revenue and earnings miss on Wednesday, stoking fears that artificial intelligence is pressuring its core search-engine business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Still, the deliberate stoking of fear of criminality today mirrors that of the past.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Previous schemes to help first-time buyers did not restrict eligibility by income but faced criticism for stoking house prices by allowing relatively wealthy households to borrow more.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

But elsewhere, China's soaring surpluses are increasingly stoking tensions with key trading partners, including the European Union and the United States.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

After three years of pumping the bellows and stoking the furnace, I said to the master, “When do I learn to blow glass?”

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz