spartan
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The question was about the student section’s harassment of former Spartan Xavier Booker, which seemed like a legitimate query considering Booker had a terrible game.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Peter Cardillo of Spartan Capital Securities calls it an implicit threat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The war comes to be defined by the Spartan general Brasidas, who goes on to wrong-foot Thucydides in 424 B.C., and Cleon, who may have engineered Thucydides’ exile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
“We need the numbers,” said Peter Cardillo, chief markets economist at Spartan Capital Securities.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a batde, then explode into a million colors.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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