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[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín dealt the company a blow on Monday when she temporarily blocked Paramount from finalizing the acquisition until mid-August.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

In 2017, the Chinese conglomerate Geely took a controlling interest in the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Tice told the BBC earlier this month that it was entirely his choice for the company to give half of the money from Fiona Cottrell to his party.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

While the big three providers have signaled that they don’t want to do business with SpaceX in this capacity, that won’t necessarily stop Musk’s company from trying to force their hands.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

The two friends parted company at Handsome’s field.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The delay could saddle Paramount, the smallest of the major media companies, with substantial legal fees and hundreds of millions of dollars in added deal costs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The Wall Street Journal analyzed perks disclosed in the most recent annual filings from 1,500 of the largest U.S. public companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Dr. Ghasemi says the findings do not rule out concerns that governments and companies may focus on consumer behavior to avoid responsibility for larger structural reforms.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

Permissible donors include individuals registered on an electoral register and companies registered in the UK.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Those companies that did make MDR drugs could pretty much name their own price.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

It handed lucrative contracts to the country’s biggest construction companied.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2016

The companied initially tried to list its shares on the Hong Kong Exchange, which would seem to be a friendly home.

From Time Sep. 19, 2014

And presumably it is at least an implication of Bacon's dictum that our poor illiterate lonely hordes are neither companied nor "full", for reading accomplisheth fullness.

From The Guardian Feb. 17, 2011

Generals and admirals in varied uniforms, sun helmets, marine wool jackets, coveralls, khakis and tin hats, ac companied him on an inspection tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

But her intentions were serious at bottom, in view of three hundred dollars which papa had privately given her, at the last moment, companied by a defiant wink.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 4, 2018

As it turned out, the U.S. newsmen ac companying Nixon faced dangers of their own when the Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It were well not to name him here," she said, "for the chief men know of his past companying with Claverhouse and other malignants, and they might distrust his honesty and yours."

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

It was much more common to see him sallying forth cheek by jowl with some of these, fishing, hawking, or boar-hunting, than to see him companying with his Saxon comrades.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

He grew up pleasant and polite, winsome and lovesome; a ravishment to all who saw him, and he inclined to companying with brethren and comrades and mixing with merchants and travelled men.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir




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