ad hoc
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“Failure by a company to publish inside information as soon as possible in the form of an ad hoc disclosure constitutes a breach of the Market Abuse Regulation,” it said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
AI is enabling a more ad hoc structure based on workflows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The tribes hope it will turn their ad hoc emergency work — which has coincided with an increase of chi in the lake — into a lasting strategy to protect the fish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some have been driving pipes into the earth, making ad hoc irrigation systems to combat subterranean fires.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
As far as Kepler was concerned, elliptical orbits were merely an ad hoc hypothesis, and a rather repugnant one at that, because ellipses were clearly less perfect than circles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
