treadmill

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In a 28-page document reviewed by Barron’s, the firm styled SoFi as a “financial engineering treadmill” rather than a growing business and alleged it served to enrich its executives while diluting shareholders.

From Barron's

The pattern holds whether scientists are testing how fast lizards run on a treadmill, measuring how sharks swim in the ocean, or tracking how quickly bacterial cells divide.

From Science Daily

“Maybe what I need to do is just celebrate all I’ve done instead of getting back into this rat race, on this treadmill, and look for something totally different,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

The lawyer said these efforts enticed users to a "treadmill of continuous checking" for new content.

From Barron's

He explained that to younger people like his students, collecting and renting DVDs is a way “to be able to slow down and get off this hedonic treadmill of ‘where’s my next stimulus coming from.’”

From Los Angeles Times