edging
Example Sentences
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This conflict should keep silver edging higher, as short investors will quickly cover their losses and true believers will become more convicted until something wipes them out.
From Barron's
Revenue totaled $33.5 billion for the fourth quarter, edging out the $32.9 billion consensus view, while adjusted earnings per share of 52 cents cleared the 46-cent mark that analysts were modeling.
From MarketWatch
So far, results are encouraging: In the past year, the fund has returned 16.9%, edging the S&P 500’s 15.3% return.
From Barron's
Adjusted earnings, which strip out exceptional costs and one-off items, were 99 cents a share, edging out the mean analyst estimate of 98 cents a share, as per FactSet.
Since then her after-life assignment is to “comfort” others, edging them to “the other side.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
