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The potential payoff for Amazon extends beyond grabbing a chunk of the auto sales business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

A good chunk of those gains were driven by chip stocks, as Wall Street bought artificial intelligence beneficiaries at the expense of software stocks deemed potential victims of AI advancements.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

A chunk of bone discovered on a beach by a schoolgirl could be up to half a million years old, according to an evolutionary biologist.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Fighting in the Middle East had choked off a big chunk of the world’s fertilizer supply and sent prices for certain fertilizers up 40% from where they were in late February.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

One fella had a fisherman’s net, and the other had a small chunk of meat.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm