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Investment in business equipment, for example, could rise at a frothy 14% annual pace in the second quarter of this year, Oxford Economics estimates.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 27, 2026

"But we are not able to treat the most serious injuries, for example when more than 50 percent of the body is burnt," Boucari Hamadoum said.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

Then turn in the most benign of public records requests — access to a calendar, for example — and prepare for weeks of delays and excuses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Memory and storage chips, for example, are used in a broad array of consumer-electronics products that includes everything from videogame consoles to cars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

On the question of funding the domestic debt, for example, Hamilton regarded Madison’s proposal to distinguish between original and present holders of government securities as naive and mischievous.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis