prospect
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McKeown said the prospect has not "gone off the table" in Rome, but he believes any final decision remains some time off.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Since the gap between U.S. and Japanese rates historically is an important influence on the exchange rate, the prospect of higher rates in America suggests Tokyo will have to move faster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even if a condo comes with a lower price tag, selling one has become more difficult as buyers get spooked at the prospect of bearing ever-rising costs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Luke was viewed as a four-star prospect when he committed to USC in the summer of 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I came down as soon as I thought there was a prospect of breakfast.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Pushed on whether it bothers her that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax were leaving the UK, the minister said she was "optimistic about our country's prospects".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Langone had such faith in the young company’s prospects that he called in some favors on Wall Street, and Bear Stearns reluctantly agreed to take on the piddly $6 million planned offering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The company is attracting renewed interest from investors drawn to its growth prospects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"It is difficult to understand what the future prospects are because it is not clear what the industrial plan is," Carlo Mapelli, Materials Engineering professor at Milan's Politecnico, told AFP on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
There the resemblance ended, however, for Heqet was rich in prospects.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Small fragments of the specimen were "prospected" using ultraviolet lights at night.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
Bolsonaro’s father prospected for gold at Serra Pelada, where Dirceu first saw gold mining, and the president sometimes draws on his upbringing to rally support from prospectors.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
"He's prospected through here pretty closely, since he came out first, and so have his brothers; and they're convinced that the only paying mines will be found in the mountains."
From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
The city tries to keep its idiosyncratic businesses going while prospecting for newcomers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The rise in clicks on his posts -- and the related increase in commissions he makes on sales of products he uses in his prospecting -- has generated a new income source for James.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025
In Sacramento, Cody Blanchard, 35, had been gold-hunting for several years in Northern California before starting his own business selling equipment and offering prospecting tours last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
In 1898, prospecting led him to a nearly vacant trail crossing that the trappers called Edmonton, where he found that the soil was the perfect medium for making brick.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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