anchor
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In February 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously lost Walter Cronkite when the renowned news anchor told Americans he could no longer accept the president’s assurances about the war in Vietnam.
Many life transitions—retirement, widowhood, divorce, empty nesting—come with an unexpected loss of social anchors.
Situated inside Amazon’s Luxury Stores section, it was almost as if Saks was anchoring the luxury wing of a digital mall.
They assert that stocks in these industries “offer relative resilience against AI-driven swings, anchored by policy, geopolitics and supply chain fundamentals.”
From MarketWatch
While inflation expectations are anchored, and recent stimulus in the form of electricity rebates to households has ended, the RBA won’t want to rely on that as the economy gathers momentum.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
