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utility

[yoo-til-i-tee] / yuˈtɪl ɪ ti /


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Americans buy gas, pay utility bills, purchase groceries and start changing their spending behavior in response to these pressures.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

Barron’s picked Idacorp stock on May 22, 2025, believing the utility serving some 650,000 retail customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon would benefit from population inflow and power-hungry artificial-intelligence data centers.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Emerging-market exchanges typically have been dominated by financial, utility and resource companies—one reason they usually fetched low price/earnings multiples.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The last time it successfully closed a regulated utility acquisition was Gulf Power in 2019.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

All these different revolutions have their utility in understanding the past, but they should not distract our attention from the main event: the invention of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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