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Management was keen to emphasize that their forecasts already incorporate the possibility of export restrictions imposed by governments on sales of its products to China.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
It is understood the couple have opted not to do public meet-and-greets because they are keen to "minimise disruption" to the public and to host organisations.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Exploring these accounts, I found that many lead back to Choudhury, keen to speculate and fantasize about which species might be in “The End of Oak Street.”
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
Moses was clearly a keen observer of nature.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Throughout Europe astronomers took a keen interest in what Copernicus had to say, but, with only a very few exceptions, they took it for granted that his account of a moving Earth was simply wrong.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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