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[muhl-tuh-puhl] / ˈmʌl tə pəl /


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An investigation commissioned by Gov. Gavin Newsom found the Fire Department ignored multiple warnings that the Jan. 1 Lachman fire still was smoldering days before it exploded into the Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

She also asked why multiple men in a group chat for members of Chi Phi - the fraternity group at the centre of the allegations - did not speak up.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The actual sequence of thinking tokens can be a chaos of AI-invented shorthand, at times using multiple languages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"The club's firm position is that, on multiple grounds, the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe," City said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The plant had lost power, but it had multiple backups.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Crucially, with the broader market spinning its wheels of late, surging earnings mean price-to-earnings multiples have dropped.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

They typically have low enterprise-value-to-Ebitda multiples of four or five, and high free-cash-flow yields of 10% to 15%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

“However, the complicated macro backdrop and higher rates will almost certainly cause multiples to continue to compress,” Jane Gibbons, equity strategist at Jefferies, wrote in a Wednesday note.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

P/B, versus multiples of 5.9X and 3.0X, respectively, implied by Mirae Asset Securities analyst Young-gun Kim’s target price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“If I bought a credit default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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