finite
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This led to what Ricardo Caballero, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dubbed the “safe-asset shortage”: As investors’ demand for supersafe assets collided with a finite supply, yields plummeted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Destroying a camera sends a strong and unmistakable message: They are finite, physical entities, just like us.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rather than collapsing into an infinite singularity, it reaches a very high but finite density and then reverses direction, expanding outward.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Some of these minerals are finite and future generations may never see them. We do not want them to inherit white elephants," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing finite
100 SAT Words Beginning with "F"
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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Algebra
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