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unwind

[uhn-wahynd] / ʌnˈwaɪnd /




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Now, his Miami residence offers its next owner a place to unwind between matches—with room to practice their own serve.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Courtney Love wanted to book a bunch of time,” but also wanted a place to unwind outside the studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Situational was up about 270% for calendar year 2026 through May before it lost billions of dollars in a swift unwind this summer, after the end of the university’s fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Pimco’s Dan Ivascyn this week told the Financial Times that the 10-year Treasury yield could hit 6% if highly leveraged investors have to suddenly unwind losing bets after weeks of heavy selling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

He holds the string up in one hand turns the rings so they wind and unwind in bright spinning flashes.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

“Today’s settlement unwinds an agreement under which Zillow paid Redfin $100 million to stop competing and hand off all its customers to Zillow,” said Daniel Guarnera, who helms the FTC’s Bureau of Competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Ultimately, when a risk event occurs, dispersion unwinds and correlations between stocks and the index rise rapidly.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

When the trade unwinds, it will entail the opposite of what’s been happening — the selling of individual-stock volatility and the buying of index volatility, and a likely sharp rise in correlations.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

While some F1 stars like Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc choose to race online in their spare time, Häkkinen unwinds by riding horses.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

El unwinds the towel from her waist and rushes off to the pool.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

Markets saw a turbulent summer: the AI trade stumbled as semiconductor stocks fell, hedge fund Situational Awareness suffered a bruising decline and leveraged investors unwound their riskiest positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

On the other hand, July registered a large drop in state and local education employment that might have been due more to calendar quirks than anything else, and so could be unwound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

That trade has since unwound dramatically, leaving growth more than two standard deviations oversold relative to value, partly because of the recent blowup of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

The boom results were posted despite South Korean stocks suffering a sharp sell-off on Wednesday as nervous traders unwound AI-driven bets, fretting whether lofty profit forecasts are realistic.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

At last I unwound part of my sari, meaning to tear it, but the material would not tear: where my hands were it gave, limp and perished.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Despite these dynamics, GM reported third-quarter profits of $3.3 billion, more than double last year's level, which was marred by one-time costs connected to unwinding electric vehicle investments.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Silver’s sharper price decline than gold reflects its “greater volatility, exposure to industrial demand, and the unwinding of earlier speculative enthusiasm,” said Ryan McIntyre, president of Sprott.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Manus in September said it had resumed independent operations after unwinding the Meta acquisition.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

In a sign that the unwinding bond trades were causing pain elsewhere in European markets, the euro slid Thursday, as did stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

This morning the mountain was dusted with snow, and the blue-gray clouds were unwinding from the peaks.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko


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