cocktail

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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

And as MAGAdom rounded into shape, and I started telling my girlfriend about Milo Yiannopoulos, she said, “Rather than talking about this guy at a cocktail party, you should be writing a newsletter about it.”

From Slate • May 7, 2026

RTD, which includes the canned cocktail brand Cutwater, was the only category to grow for the company in terms of both volume and revenue in the U.S. last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

“Purveyors of prestigious names from history for wealthy idiots who want to brag at their cocktail parties, ‘Oh, yes, my little Henry comes from a line of British kings.’

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix