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formation

[fawr-mey-shuhn] / fɔrˈmeɪ ʃən /


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His all-Oxford intellectual formation comes out of the post-“Great Financial Crisis” macro-finance school that views financial crises as driven by leverage cycles, liquidity spirals and risk-taking channels as much as by the traditional business cycle.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

They break away from the formation and leave.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The team plans to expand the work by studying more realistic mixtures of materials, with the goal of better capturing the complex processes that govern fallout formation during real-world nuclear events.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

On its weekly chart, it has carved out a bullish inverse head and shoulders formation dating back to last March following the end of a 10-week losing streak.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

He remembered when Nali had told him that First Coyote interrupted the Holy Beings during the formation of the stars.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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