dub

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“I think about how incredible it must have been for people to realize they could just put whatever they wanted onto a tape, dub it, give it to a friend,” says Richardson.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Taking its name from medieval castles, long-term investors dub a dominant company’s ability to maintain its edge a “moat.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

She and four other female authors—Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Baroness Orczy and Ngaio Marsh—team up and dub themselves the Queens of Crime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

World economic growth forecasts will be revised up by one percentage point annually for the next five years, says Saxo, leading Wall Street to dub the episode the “Swiftie put.”

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

Hampton Roads had become the embodiment of what Cold War president Dwight D. Eisenhower would a decade later dub the “military- industrial complex.”

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly