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[im-plahy] / ɪmˈplaɪ /


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That certainly seems to imply that the current bull market is getting long in the tooth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham appeared at Missouri’s homecoming game with a hat bearing a slogan that seemed to imply that transgender women are not actually women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The high times, prosecutors seemed to imply, had been bankrolled by the Roebucks’ cash.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Further rises in inflation are expected, and the renewed surge in oil prices imply that the “risks are heavily stacked to the upside,” Shah said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

She closes my file and puts it aside, perhaps a gesture to imply our conversation has just become informal and off the record.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The 200-DMA currently extends to 24,919, according to FactSet data, which implies 4.7% downside from Friday’s close.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It’s the kind of Hollywood support that implies an Oscar nomination is still on the table, even if the possibility of a win seems more difficult now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

She set a $230 price target for the stock, which implies about 15% upside from current prices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Dan Bird, from cyber security firm Horizon3 says the pop up message the criminals sent implies that their access has gone beyond the Snowflake database.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Such an approach implies that the sort of knowledge obtained by experiment need not be a reliable guide to how nature works.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In its early years, Facebook was known to operate under a philosophy of "move fast and break things," but more recently, Zuckerberg implied Meta would balance safety with speed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

That implied that the effect of the subsidy terminations had slowed, in the view of market analysts at Cox Automotive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

In North Carolina, our curiosity would have to be implied.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The bid implied a price of A$27.00 per Northern Star share based on Gold Fields’ closing price on Sept. 11, valuing Northern Star’s equity at A$38.7 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

We do know that Jefferson’s famous dinner was not, as he implied, the only such occasion.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Vance implying Talarico is gay and the time Talarico called God nonbinary.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

The group backed its guidance for the year for sales to remain broadly stable, implying some improvement over the coming months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Van Houten said his office did not bring charges at the time because he had only seen a statement from Doe implying the incident was consensual and that she had not been drugged.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But UK defence minister Wes Streeting said the woman only had a "partial picture", implying police were aware of the situation before they were alerted.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Over and over, he preached the importance of reconciliation — implying that it was we who needed to reconcile ourselves to the whites.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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