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Example Sentences
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"You can really tell the patients who are well informed versus the women who have seen lots of scare stories. And it can be a real worry."
From BBC
“But this one is somewhat unreasonable. He’s got a chip on his shoulder versus the government,” she decided.
From Slate
“It really comes down to flexibility versus perks.”
From MarketWatch
In a paper by researchers Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein, the authors estimated that considering factors like that, a typical loan to a middle-market company might be expected to generate a roughly 13% return on equity for a bank, versus a potential 24% return for a typical private-credit fund loan.
Just a small amount of money traded by investors can move the market — $2.5 million versus a $12 million year-to-date average, he noted.
From MarketWatch
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