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If Rolls-Royce is about delivering world-apart experiences to its clients, the Spectre certainly represents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Seizing Kharg Island and the islands near the mainland would require an amphibious landing on a contested shoreline, among “the hardest operations” a military can attempt, and one that Iran is almost certainly prepared for.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Oil around $110 a barrel certainly stings, but it may not last.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Alicia was always like this, never quite looking you in the eye, possibly never even listening to you, almost certainly thinking about something else.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness