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can

[kan, kuhn] / kæn, kən /




VERB
preserve fruit, vegetable
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK




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“We could not buy spare parts for machinery, for example. They all had to be paid for in hard currency that we mostly couldn’t access,” he said.

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“Just one of the many ways we can keep the party going.”

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They reckon it could be a lengthy bidding process.

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Then one can layer in investors’ expectations for a solid consumer economy and Wall Street dealmaking environment in 2026, as well as additional share buybacks.

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That means a letter dropped in a mailbox on Monday could be postmarked on Wednesday, if that was the day it got to a processing facility.

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