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After removing duplicates of stocks in two or more of the groups, our initial list was made up of 523 stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Sykes in April denied an initial request for a preliminary injunction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"There may already be a few early arriving fans present, representing the initial amount of lithium in the stellar atmosphere, but they are quickly outnumbered."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
The latest flight will be the first after Musk's SpaceX went public on Wall Street in June, with a record initial public offering.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
I was correct in my initial assessment that two wheels are missing.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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He knew, though, that Cantor Fitzgerald executives preferred to use initials rather than full names in their emails.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Although authorities identified the victim only by his initials, H.S.N., media reports identify him as Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
In court, the handler was referred to as "EL Money", which is how he was saved in Lavrynovych's phone, but on the Telegram messaging app he simply used the initials "EL".
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
While agreement is close, with Iranian initials put on paper, we can report that the text isn’t fully settled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Someone arranged blue bits into squiggly initials: JC + CC.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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One of the invoices is initialed “SW” with “OK to pay” written by it.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022
He testified to purchasing a car for $3,500 and initialed a blank sales agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
Saint Laurent’s invite was pure luxury: A black leather wallet — initialed with the name of the respective guest — with YSL embossed in gold metal on the front.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
At the very top, there are two giant joists initialed by workers from 1864.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2020
The next day, in Paris, Kissinger and Le Duc Tho initialed the deal to end the Vietnam War.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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He reminded the jury of that evidence, including a memo the former president initialled authorising a pay cut for another executive for the exact amount of his perk, rent paid by the company.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
Medinsky said Russia had made a second major de-escalatory step by agreeing to a possible meeting of the two countries’ presidents at the same moment that a peace agreement was initialled.
From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2022
Pages initialled by "DC" set out how the single market, due to start in 1992, would help business, workers, consumers, savers, holidaymakers.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2019
President Mohamed Mursi's government initialled an IMF deal in November but postponed ratification in December due to unrest ignited by a political row over the extent of Mursi's powers.
From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2013
“That is correct, Monsieur. My handkerchiefs are always initialled in the Russian characters. H is N in Russian.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Sometimes, I think back to initialing the bark, or nailing a plank of wood into the trunk, or breaking a branch by accident.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
Scott McDonell, the Dane County clerk, said the man is a poll worker, and the video shows him initialing ballots before they were handed out to voters.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
But he turned out to be a poll worker in Wisconsin conducting the standard procedure of initialing ballots for voters.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
He was initialing ballots to be handed out to voters, a standard procedure mandated by state law, said Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Next morning she was singing as usual over her initialing.
From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins
This is the Epeira’s trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation.
From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The earlier taste still ruled in initialling and border decorations; but little flowers were added by degrees to the thorn-leaf pattern, and birds, sometimes angels, introduced.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred
Miss Belmont stooped at the table, and when Mr. Berry entered he found her initialling the pay-sheet.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
This is the Epeira's trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
He was very preoccupied, pinning up cheques and initialling some important customer's paying-in book.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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