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As this debt becomes a greater part of bond markets—and funds that track them—investors seeking a broad mix of market exposure will have to make sure they are really diversified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

They've been issuing the same warnings for the the greater part of the last decade now, as each year seems to promise even more danger than the last.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

Years later, colonial official Sir Charles Eliot said Nairobi sat in "a depression with a very thin layer of soil or rock. The soil was water-logged during the greater part of the year".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2024

He regretted that climate change and its impact on Pakistan are not a greater part of public and political discourse.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024

For the greater part of an hour Desdemona had been trying to ignore her foreboding by working in the cocoonery.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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