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commentary

[kom-uhn-ter-ee] / ˈkɒm ənˌtɛr i /


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This is such an interesting commentary on what is visible to justices and what isn’t.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

With interest rates rising, they also think commentary on competition is important.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

There will be live ball-by-ball commentary from every match of England's tour of Australia on Test Match Special.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Daniela Hathorn, senior analyst at Capital.com, said in emailed commentary that as companies prepare to report results, the current economic backdrop means they’ve had to work harder to earn their stock-market valuations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

It was a bad habit, Mitchell Sanders said, because all that matters is the raw material, the stuff itself, and you can’t clutter it up with your own half-baked commentary.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

Some commentaries noted it was less about substance than ceremony and symbolism, but what did it commemorate or symbolize?

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

I’ll let you in on another bit of digital journalism that always holds true: Questions explored in commentaries are either unanswerable or the answer is “no.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

If he doesn’t, markets won’t stop trying to guess what he’s thinking: they’ll just rely on other Fed officials’ commentaries, some random bit of data, the latest version of purple traffic cones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

This has echoed across social media and commentaries over the past week, drawing even politicians into the conversation.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

I explained how I had reconstructed the text, then quoted the reconstructed text from memory, showing him how it fitted perfectly to the explanation offered by the simplest of all the commentaries.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok


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