strike
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To harness a big amount of stock without much money, buy one call and sell another with a higher strike price but same expiration to profit from potential rallies.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
If the stock never touches the strike, you keep the put premium.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The Iran World Cup team arrived in Tijuana wearing lapel pins on their jackets acknowledging victims of a Feb. 28 missile strike on an elementary school.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
A man has described how he frantically tried to wake up his neighbours after a lightning strike set a house on fire and the blaze rapidly spread.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
There, the radiation emitted by a decaying isotope will strike one of the body’s cells.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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