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interest

[in-ter-ist, -trist] / ˈɪn tər ɪst, -trɪst /


NOUN
advantage
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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His interest grew when he discovered that the cave, known as Wogan Cavern, showed little signs of previous excavation - so he "badgered" Dr Rob Dinnis, from the University of Aberdeen, to take a look.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan said the central bank should raise interest rates to combat elevated inflation, becoming one of the clearest voices yet for a hike at Fed’s July meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Davidson’s Luria told MarketWatch that higher interest rates and constrained availability of capital may be “issues unique to CoreWeave” given its “unusually high exposure to debt financing.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Cook said the Fed's rate-setting committee "can take its time" to observe data while deciding on interest rate adjustments.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Once more she tried to interest herself in the sweet misadventures of Edith-Anne Pevington, who not only lived with two loving and easily locatable parents but had her own pony to boot.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

However, Liang has been selective in choosing backers to ensure that commercial interests don’t interfere with DeepSeek’s long-term push in frontier AI research, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

"It is vitally important that if national security interests are at stake, that there's not what I would say is a huge blind spot," Clayton said, defending the move.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

He may have been dissuaded from imposing a toll, but this is the way he thinks, and this is how he defines U.S. interests.

From Slate Jul. 15, 2026

The program’s interdisciplinary approach takes into account changing interests.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Jackson rose to thank Ames and his northern colleagues for seeing the light and recovering the old conciliatory spirit that had once permitted northern and southern interests to cooperate.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

But although Adrian soon picks up a camera as well, increasingly interested in being a filmmaker himself, he resents how his father intrudes on their time together by constantly shooting their conversations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

In his view, it shows that investors are interested in evaluating memory-chip makers on their own given the role they play in the AI buildout, rather than as part of the broader chip sector.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

"There are Don Quixotes and Sanchos: idealists and pragmatists. Some may find the transparency of crystals fascinating, while others are interested in their smell and whether they're edible," García-Ruiz pointed out.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

Someone who is interested in becoming an official typically starts at the local level.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Most of the people who drop by seem to be more interested in chatting with Babs than in buying anything.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Although, as is the case with too much of Nolan’s storytelling, he wrongly thinks it’s more interesting to withhold Odysseus’ traumatic hang-up until the ending.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

One chimpanzee named Sandy displayed particularly interesting behavior.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

"The one thing I found interesting is it's so obvious as to which holes had been redone," Scheffler said in his news conference.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

KESSLER: It’s interesting how much we agree on a lot of things, including that I’d be in favor of an agent regulation system.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

If I smell, it’ll be the most interesting thing about me, and suddenly I’m “Pigpen” or “Sir Stinks-a-Lot” or “BO Boy.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz




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