anchor
Example Sentences
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He called Barbie and La La Land actor Gosling "a singular star that has the massive global appeal and charisma to anchor a story like this".
From BBC
Despite her best efforts - and running the quickest leg of any athlete in the event with a 50.10-second split - she was unable to overturn a substantial deficit on her anchor leg.
From BBC
That message of defiance wasn’t delivered by Khamenei himself: It was read out on state television by a female news anchor.
As long as inflation expectations stayed anchored around its 2% target and the labor market wasn’t tight, it believed inflation would drift back to 2%.
“It, of course, is kind of standard learning that you look through energy shocks, but that’s always been dependent on inflation expectations remaining well anchored,” Powell said.
From Barron's
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