C
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Forus, a New York-headquartered prescription drug automation platform, landed $150 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In April 2022, a Series C funding round had valued Boring at $5.675 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Should a barista want the coffee to stay hotter for longer - if a customer requests extra hot - it can be served at over 82 degrees C, says MTPak Coffee.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
AI startup Wonderful raised $550 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $5 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He pulled a small box of colorful vitamin C drops from his pocket and held it out to the mother—for the girls, he gestured.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
As I sit in the car with C after the second ICE vehicle sped off, the remaining Wagoneer idles midblock—right in front of C’s house.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2026
In high school, I received mostly B’s and C’s, and I didn’t study for the SATs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
At a later date, Baby C's mother was given the non-confidential report and was led to believe it was the full document but she told the inquiry it was "woeful, information was missing".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024
Maya recommends focusing on three C’s: catch, cause and cancer.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Figure 1.19: When a sharp sign appears in the C space in the key signature, all C's are sharp unless marked as accidentals.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Only eight banks got Bs, while the majority got Cs; 36 got Ds.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
The 16-year-old hopes to get a minimum of five Cs, including maths and Welsh, to study for a Level 3 in agricultural engineering at Coleg Glynllifon.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
"And by now, they would have found them. There would be plan Bs and plan Cs, to make sure that we have reduced this exposure to the US."
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
A significant amount of radioactive Cs was released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors in particulate form.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
The bottom 150 were the Cs, the ones who Terman judged to have done the least with their superior mental ability.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Beyond consent, the other two c’s, credit and compensation, have their own challenges, as illustrated even now with the high cost of litigation regarding infringements of copyright or patents.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023
“It hasn’t rained in months,” she said, her Tuscan Italian full of soft g’s and c’s.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
On the other hand I can always tell you that I lost a spelling bee to Juanita Meyers in the fifth grade; the word was necessary, I misspelled it with two "c's."
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
Hard consonants - k's, d's, hard c's and hard g's - gave me hell.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2010
I think about the curling g's and c's she was so proud to mark on her pages and show Du Barry when we were little.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
A contestant in the Season 3 premiere lays out her "four cs" theory of success: "courage, creativity, cash and celebrity."
From Time Magazine Archive
Longitudinal section of flower; v, bracteole on the peduncle; l, sepals; ls, appendage of sepal; c, petals; cs, spur of the lower petals; fs, glandular appendage of the lower stamens; a, anthers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
L cs - b4† In both notations the moves are often given in a tabular form, thus:— 1.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
The grammarians say that the character axis a monogram representing cs or gs.
From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck
After giving the sound of x as cs, Marius Victorinus goes on to speak of z thus:
From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Frances Ellen Lord
