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[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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SpaceX shares fell 2.6% Wednesday to close at under $140, as the startup LandSpace landed the first stage of its Zhueque-3 rocket on a launchpad, a first for a Chinese company.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Excluding Panama, underlying Ebitda would have increased 10% in reported currencies and 6.0% in local currencies, the company said.

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

The councilmember then called out Bass for working with a communications consultant who was simultaneously advising her and Lineage, the company whose warehouse burned in Boyle Heights in June.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

“That telephone company must still have you on the night shift”—he carries on, saying this phrase like it tastes bad: night shift—“if you managed to take a train in the middle of the day.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Leader Zack Polanski said the tax would be applied to UK profits of more than £800m and be used to cut tax bills for a million smaller 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 drama at Tata is a reminder of the looming corporate governance challenge facing other family-owned companies in Asia.

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

During the 1740s the British War Office and Parliament commissioned two companies of colonial rangers and authorized more than a hundred men to serve in the Highland Rangers in Georgia.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

Afar stands now that gladness brief; Long have I companied with grief; Restless I stray outside the garden!

From Rampolli by George MacDonald

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

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

Through the golden gate of the ear have gone what noble truths, companying together what messengers of affection, what sweet friendships.

From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Newell Dwight Hillis




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