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Credit-ratings firms are paid by bond issuers to analyze the bonds and the financial health of the issuers to come up with a credit rating.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Apple—in its very Apple way—has also come up with some hardware and software trickery to make up for some shortcomings of the basic design.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Roddenberry told the Times in 1966 that he’d first come up with the idea for “Star Trek” six years prior, when “television had no interest in science fiction.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Candidates had to come up with sponsorship and marketing campaigns, and then pitch to a room of seven people.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

“This way our arrival will be a real surprise. We’ll come up with a careful plan of attack and take things step by step. Hup, hup, hup! Eh, governess? Governess?”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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