demand
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The company anticipates data-center demand to remain strong in the fourth quarter, with continuing pricing momentum offsetting the hit of raw-material inflation and tariffs for the year as a whole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Like other electrical-equipment suppliers, Schneider has been riding a wave of demand for products in data centers sparked by artificial intelligence, and has moved to redeploy the windfall to dealmaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“There’s a line around the corner every day,” he joked, but not because of the demand; it’s because of the slow service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
It added that the total demand and network traffic continues to rise, and the mobile operators are investing around £2bn each year to "meet the challenge".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
If this demand were granted, you would need only eleven points out of twenty three but I would still need twelve and a half out of my twenty three.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Banga has argued in the past that its work should be driven by client countries' demands, not its own prescriptions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The two Asian powers have often found common ground at UN climate negotiations, pushing back against Western demands for emissions cuts and arguing that developing countries should not bear the same burden as industrialised nations.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
According to the supervisors, BHP's latest offer failed to include demands including pay raises and monthly production bonuses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The chip maker quietly signaled a new way of thinking about the competing demands of capital returns and building its AI ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
And when Germany was caught up in the worldwide depression of the early 1930s, Germans were ready to blame the economic disaster that had overwhelmed them on the treaty’s demands.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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While Elliot was still recovering in a maternity ward the next day, Zhang demanded she buy a car seat and drive Zhang and her newborn son to the airport, according to the suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The next call came from Blanche, who demanded diGenova fly to Washington for a meeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Fiji's government demanded Friday that the United States hand over evidence showing a Chinese state agency employee living in the country paid bribes on behalf of Beijing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The judge also demanded documentation on Pike's psychological condition before, during and after the failed execution.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
"You know what happened to the slippers?" she demanded.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
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He wrote “La Nieve” the night after filming an emotionally demanding execution and took inspiration from the verses in the last letter that Lorca wrote to Rodríguez Rapún.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
One widely accepted scientific hypothesis proposes that people tend to avoid movement when it feels physically demanding or requires substantial energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Asked if the demanding job would impact her personal life, Zacharia described how her family of four children was adapting.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Fifteen years later, the Athenians sent their navy to the neutral island of Melos, demanding that the Melians abandon their neutral stance, join the Athenian-dominated Delian League, and pay tribute to Athens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
A one-woman publicity machine, she sent out indignant press releases, as well as letters to the government demanding a public accounting.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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