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strike

[strahyk] / straɪk /








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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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