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“There’s a lot of commiserating,” says Troy Cormier, CEO of the Jason’s Deli chain that has 200-plus locations across more than two dozen states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
In 2023, Luckin overtook Starbucks as China's largest coffee chain.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Cirrus Logic faces a ‘difficult outlook’ given Apple’s iPhone supply chain hurdles and a lack of growth drivers in the near term.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Each link takes a fee, and nobody at the end of the chain has heard of you.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Freddy and Teddy would chain their bikes up so that Danny couldn’t borrow them, even though they were in the garage collecting dust.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
The growing importance of undersea infrastructure prompted a parliamentary report last year, external to warn of security vulnerabilities in areas including transport and supply chains, financial services and payment systems.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Tsuchiya said the model is similar to chains like Costco or Ikea: large stores on the outskirts of cities, where land is cheaper and loyal customers come by car and spend relatively more.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
As such, “friction in supply chains will meter some supply growth.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
More than seven in 10 of these high earners are now being forced to shop at discount grocery chains to save cash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
As he got over his initial shock, he noticed other details: the frost spreading from the base of the Doors, the purplish glow in the air around them, and the chains that held them fast.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Searching for "secret information" that could help it cheat the evaluation, the OpenAI system "chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials".
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
"You were not chained to a door or something, right? You were not locked up in a basement. The chains were less obvious, but they were there."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
The bug wasn’t the worst type there is, but it could be chained together with another hack to seize control of a computer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Black conjured heavy manacles from thin air; soon Pettigrew was upright again, left arm chained to Lupin’s right, right arm to Ron’s left.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
In chaining many weaker chips together, it aims to mimic cutting-edge models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Adding eight gigawatts of new demand to a 2.4 gigawatt system is like chaining an M1 Abrams tank to a Toyota Camry and expecting the two vehicles to drive calmly down the highway together.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
You and your husband have gone from wanting to sell this house to actually chaining yourself to the house and the future occupants.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
Overloading can happen in two ways - one is known as "daisy chaining".
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Short of chaining him to his side, Luke had done everything he could to keep Toby from making the mistake he seemed intent on making.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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