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Since then, Doustdar has been tasked with rebuilding the company — which he is doing, in fits and starts.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Forward guidance as currently practiced by the Fed evolved in fits and starts, each fit or start motivated by some idiosyncratic event.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Breaks in the investigation have come in fits and starts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

In the century since the riot, progress has come in fits and starts.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield




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