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stock

[stok] / stɒk /






NOUN
investment in company
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Many senior staff receive roughly half of their annual compensation in deferred stock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The move, orchestrated by Everett to satisfy the demands of the company’s top-dollar backers, cheats Michael out of his stock options and equity in the company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

He said that Friday’s broad-based technology selloff was “not leaving any stock untouched.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Among his first goals is to “outspend” both of his primary competitors, Disney and Netflix—even as his media empire faces down a multibillion-dollar debt load and a cratering stock price.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

On October 29 of 1929, the stock market crashed.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Moderna and Revolution Medicines have upcoming catalysts that could help sustain their gains, even as biotech stocks retreat.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Many see the AI trade, once a monolithic bet on chip stocks and hyperscalers, splintering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Piper Sandler’s Johnson also highlighted that the index’s chart depicts that those who bought tech stocks after the Nasdaq’s breakout to the late-September and early-October record highs got duped.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The recent selloff of both stocks has been “well overdone,” analysts say.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Over the years he had invested in stocks and bonds, and Devine suspected Shorty was currently worth a nice piece of change.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The Lakers have stocked their team with versatile perimeter defenders to help complement their offensive-minded backcourt of Doncic and Reaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Rather than serving as homes for protective ants, some of the plant chambers had effectively become nurseries stocked with prey for developing wasp larvae.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

My fridge is always stocked with: eggs, greens, a lot of Spindrift sparkling water, lemons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"Every drop of water that runs off during these heatwaves is kind of old water that's been stocked in the glacier ice centuries or decades ago," said Huss.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Familiar shelves: the ones they’d been so surprised to see that Mom had stocked with cans of food and shoeboxes full of cash.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Major retailers also are preparing for increased demand around the holidays and are stocking up and replenishing inventories, Seroka said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

But the analysts said retailers would likely need greater proof that those products could actually sell before stocking the items on their shelves.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ned Ludd was the fabled hero of the early-19th-century Luddites, who smashed stocking frames—knitting machines for socks—and burned factories to protest job-destroying technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Police are also racing to harness the technology, putting on training courses and stocking up on the machines and counter-drone devices such as handheld jammers.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

A knitter working on a very long Christmas stocking that dragged behind her on the floor.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein


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