cocktail

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And those dates often are a quick meetup for coffee or a cocktail.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 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

Young, who previously ran the award-winning Ginger Viking cocktail bar in Blandford, also worked for 15 years as an engineer.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

To produce a ton of the stuff, he had explained over his astonishing cocktail, cost next to nothing.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan