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High-profile brands will warn that their calendars risk running out, which may boost early demand, while unboxing videos posted by influencers can encourage spending by creating an infectious sense of surprise and delight.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
While a significant portion of hard-disk-drive demand does come from data centers, Newman believes Seagate and Western Digital will be able to command high prices given ongoing shortages.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
To the credit of our own publisher, there was never any suggestion that we should comply with the censor’s demand that we refer to Taiwan as part of China.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026
Travel demand has been pretty resilient, so airlines aren’t feeling a lot of pressure to bring those fares back down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
The demand came directly from Morgan Stanley’s chief risk officer, Tom Daula, and Hubler and his traders were angered and disturbed that he would issue it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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But we then faced the harder question of whether to delay publication while searching for an alternative printer or coming up with some less objectionable way around the censor’s demands.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026
So Wingstop developed a machine-learning model that forecasts customer demands and runs on AWS technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The main challenge, she says, are the sheer number of demands placed on a doctor in her field.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
“The court recognized that confidential sources are the ‘lifeblood’ of investigative reporting and that dragnet demands from technology companies to reveal those sources violate the law.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
“You’re not in a position to make demands, Nichole. You should be nice to someone who knows your destiny.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Coons, along with other Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, publicly demanded that Huang brief Congress on the matter.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
As residents demanded a return to normal water supply at one protest last month, AFP saw a police officer filling up buckets they had brought to Nongsa Digital Park.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Combining both approaches demanded more computing power than was practical.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
The decision to drop the charge of assault on a federal officer came after Carlos Jimenez’s defense lawyers demanded records related to the shooting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
What if he demanded to know everything that had gone on between Russell and me?
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Despite the inherent romance of space travel, the experience is incredibly demanding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
The complete dataset will provide an even more demanding test of whether the apparent changes in dark energy persist as measurements become more precise.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Monaco's street circuit is demanding, with narrow roads, tight turns and a tunnel.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
He needed these musicians to tour, of course, and proved a demanding, mercurial leader of the groups he curated across his 40-year career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
The three shrill notes of someone demanding to be let in.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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