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Of course, not all shipwrecks find themselves in such relatively hospitable conditions—the Titanic, for instance, is slowly being gobbled up by iron-eating bacteria.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Early investors often have astronomical gains on paper—SpaceX, for instance, was worth a measly $30.5 billion in 2018—but selling shares on the secondary market can get clunky.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
In other parts of the world these storms are given different names - for instance, typhoons in the north-west Pacific, near Japan and China, or cyclones in the Indian Ocean and around Australia.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Say, for instance, that you retired last year and went on Medicare.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
He probably loved to win as much as Lenglen, for instance.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
