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active

[ak-tiv] / ˈæk tɪv /




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Daily active users in the first quarter rose 35%, well below the 44% increase expected by Wall Street.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

While working as a room service server at a hotel, he helped unionize his workplace and became active in the labor movement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The BBC's US partner, CBS News, reported that administration officials were in active conversations with members of Congress about gaining congressional authorisation for the war.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

The company projects that daily active users will decline on a sequential basis in the current quarter due to the safety rollouts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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