chasing
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Instead, they stay private — with many going public well after they’ve already achieved hockey-stick growth, leaving public investors chasing a ship that has already left the port.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman fell down the visiting dugout stairs while chasing a foul ball in the eighth inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Chicken is running the same playbook that has made prepared foods so resilient, growing through mix, brand investment, customer partnership and consumer-centric discipline, not by chasing commodity price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Today, McCormick is busy chasing after athletes to take blood lactate levels in between their efforts, and she will continue to process and analyse them long after the session has ended.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
We stayed in the water a good while, and when we got back to shore, I realized the rest of the monkeys were still there, paddling and splashing and chasing fish in the shallows.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
They'd brought fine armor up from the Twins, shining silver plate with enameled blue chasings.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
One knight wore an intricate suit of white enameled scales, brilliant as a field of new-fallen snow, with silver chasings and clasps that glittered in the sun.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
To the left, behind a row of elms, was an informal baseball diamond where three novices were being batted out by a fourth, amid great chasings and puffings and blowings.
From Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
To each, a common largess, be a pair Of Gnossian javelins and an axe decreed, With haft of silver chasings.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
He had not thought much about it at the time, for at the moment all chasings of smugglers and expeditions in aid of the manning of the fleet were absolutely at a standstill.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
