cocktail

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When entering the galleries for cocktail hour on Saturday, guests essentially walked into a small but immersive slice of these artists’ worlds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Now, it is leveraging the potent cocktail of an American World Cup to pack its war chest with money it plans to redistribute to FIFA’s 211 member nations around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

This toxic cocktail can, the researchers stress, “result in significant equity downside like we saw in 1973, 2000 and 2022.”

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

The decline comes amid a cocktail of rising bond yields, surging oil prices and profit-taking, and provides the backdrop for this week’s hotly-anticipated first quarter earnings from Nvidia.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

She was already wearing a salmon-pink cocktail dress.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling