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[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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The company wrote that net proceeds will reduce the company’s debt and facilitate the repurchase of company shares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Both the company and the four men deny the charges.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

This is the problem that attracted Sunita Mishra, Neko’s chief medical officer, to the company.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Andy Gordon, currently chief strategy officer and chief operating officer of Paramount, will serve as president of the combined company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Avery’s playlist keeps me company on my second lap around the nature trail, and then I listen to the audiobook for laps three and four.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Tech companies regularly appoint people who may not have the direct experience for a role but have the strategic vision and drive to make a difference.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

According to 2025 data from 4,768 banks, credit unions and mortgage companies, 18% of mortgage applications were denied.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

In others, ICE has purchased facilities owned and operated by private companies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Two money losing companies, GameStop and AMC Entertainment, temporarily found themselves as the largest constituents of the usually dowdy Russell 2000 Value Index.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

By the mid-1990s, dozens of small consumer lending companies were coming to market each year.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

So from a child Margaret Wilson had companied with those that spoke and loved the truth.

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

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

There is no restriction on the companying of the Father’s children, when they are gathered together in the Father’s House.”

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

Sus 1:58 Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them companying together?

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

And here she was milking and churning and feeding the hens and companying with Uncle in the barn yard.

From In Orchard Glen by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor




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