spreading

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Spreading your equity portfolio across sectors and a variety of factors can help improve the odds of capturing gains when the outlier stocks start outperforming.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Spreading its bets, HSG is increasingly looking for big-ticket investments in private equity and has set up offices in Singapore, London and Tokyo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

"Spreading caramel onto wafers is very, very difficult because it's so sticky," says Mr Louden.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

Spreading over dozens of hectares of protected tropical rainforest, Tacugama is home to the critically endangered Western chimpanzee, which is threatened by habitat loss and poaching for bushmeat.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

Spreading south at a mere one mile per month, those pioneers would have reached the southern tip of South America only 700 years after crossing the Canadian border.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond