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[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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Rob Kingsland, from the outdoor adventure company Rugged Coast in Glencoe, believes Scotland's cooler, more comfortable climate is making it increasingly attractive to holidaymakers wanting to spend their time outdoors.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Efforts to reach a resolution before initiating arbitration were unsuccessful, the company added.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The court heard in April that the company had taken millions of dollars in pre-sale funding from potential house buyers that were not used for construction.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Paramount was struggling to remain solvent prior to the Ellison family’s purchase of the media company last year.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

“You can do that? Just up and start your own company and make whatever movies you want?”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Iranian entities have long used Dubai's financial system to transfer money through exchange houses and shell companies.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

He listed several activities that he said need to stop immediately: "oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies."

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

The best jobs are at SpaceX and other mainland-based companies, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The two companies already are carrying substantial interest costs due to their existing debt structures.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

The companies paid high dividends, and their shares were often costly to borrow: New Century, for instance, paid a 20 percent dividend, and its shares cost 12 percent a year to borrow.

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

Those who companied with Tennyson through his beautiful career were helped into a growing love of purity.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle

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

If Denas is companying with Roland Tresham she oughtn’t to do it, and I must tell her so, that I must.

From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

You have been companying with him for many a mile upon the way.

From For the Faith by Evelyn Everett-Green

And companying so much with rich people would fill her mind with vanity.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Amanda Minnie Douglas




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