gears

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The company announced that it had filed for an initial public offering earlier this week, just as OpenAI reportedly gears up for its own IPO.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The winner will lead the second-largest city in the US, grappling with issues like homelessness and affordable housing as Los Angeles gears up to host the 2028 Olympics.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

It features a “common-sense, light-touch framework designed to get the federal government’s gears in motion,” Fedasiuk said in a social-media post on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

You can hear the gears in investors’ brains grinding: With just 5% of the market, they’ll be a trillion-dollar company!

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

“The wingsmiths,” he repeated, and somewhere within him, as though with a whirr of gears and a ping of sprung locks, a previously unsuspected vault of delight spilled open.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor