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have

[hav, huhv, uhv, haf] / hæv, həv, əv, hæf /




VERB
bring into the world
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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If you look within that poorest 20%, you’d see that 10% of people have credit-card balances worth over 20% of their income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

They can do so by investing in alternative institutions and new competitors, as Mr. Griffin has at CMU and I have at the University of Austin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But weak previous auctions of long-end bonds have been prone to sparking fresh rounds of selling in global sovereign-debt markets, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Under pressure from powerful critics, elite universities have begun to make changes such as adopting statements of institutional neutrality, capping grade inflation, promising to protect open inquiry and establishing civics centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

If she wants to leave again, he says, she will have to provide a “complete understanding relative to her movements.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The rate of layoffs, meanwhile, sank to the lowest level on record in late 2021 and has barely budged since then.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

All of a sudden, the player who couldn’t keep his emails out of the junk folder has become the quarterback NFL teams are lining up to draft, as a projected first-round pick in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The 30-year Treasury yield “is the one maturity the Fed does not control, and the one the world has to want,” said Vincent Ahn, portfolio manager at SLW Investments, on Thursday morning.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Mr. Mungiu, who has a stark, forthright style—no bludgeoning the audience with musical cues, no zingy dialogue—lets this life-upending moment play out in the blandest way imaginable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Still, she doesn’t want to go to Novaliches—especially after what Father Monaghan has told her about Tala.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

He asked the judge for mercy for a man he had described in a presentencing memo as “70 and effectively impecunious.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

When Morris took the Oklahoma State coaching job this offseason, the first order of business was bringing along the guy nobody had wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Whether the man or the beast is more isolated and miserable may be debated, but the gorilla, we assume, hasn’t had to face the harsh truth of his insignificance in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In 2019, the town had discovered faulty concrete in Birch Grove Primary School, and needed to rebuild it fast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The priest also explains that “he indicated many instances in which he had tried to find out what she was reading and she had refused to show him the title of the book.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Hench pointed to two newer business lines as having excellent prospects for long-term growth — cryogenic tanks used in spacecraft and equipment used in the nuclear-power generation.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Members having stable tariffs allow firms to plan and re-route,” said Staiger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Female drivers have also shown that success is possible in Top Fuel in the years after having children.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

I do remember having a conversation with my agent because, obviously, I’d come off “Stranger Things,” and there was a little concern of, “Is it too similar?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

It isn’t just that I like having done them—I liked doing them, too, even though they were hard.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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