KO
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Coca-Cola KO -1.55%decrease; red down pointing triangle reported higher first-quarter profit, boosted by growth in sales of concentrates, which it sells to bottling partners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
During the past several years, Brush has suggested KO, UTZ and HSY in his stock newsletter, Brush Up on Stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
"We got Justin the good look and KO got the rebound and put it back."
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
The Third Way coalition that is poised to take power has selected KO leader Donald Tusk as its candidate for prime minister.
From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2023
And you never want Daddy to go for the KO.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Put into the same boxing ring to duke it out, the movie’s unintentional silliness easily KO’s its blips of emotional gravity.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
According to the European Parliament report, Mr Brezja's mobile phone was hacked when he was KO's campaign manager during the 2019 parliamentary election.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
Animals services have identified who they believe was KO’s owner using the dog’s microchip but have so far been unsuccessful in finding him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
The interiors — much like Studio KO’s other work — are lavish but not ostentatious, precise but not severe.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
So what is it then, this cross-cultural hybrid in the middle of nowhere, outside the obvious lineage of both Studio KO’s architecture and its interior design work?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
They’re watching because they want to see Brenda say the skeleton looks like Calista Flockhart, or Cindy get KO’d by a black cat.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
That’s right, Adesanya, the UFC 185-pound champion, has never been KO’d by Pereira inside the octagon and the fighter better known as “The Last Stylebender” has only lost once in his MMA career.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
When 58-year-old Evander Holyfield was KO’d a little over a year ago in a boxing match in Hollywood, Fla., the Florida State Boxing Commission medically suspended him from fighting in the state for 30 days.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
Instead, other than a brief flurry to start the third period, the Kings thereafter looked like a boxer who knows he’s beaten, but hangs in there, just wanting not to get KO’d.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2022
"Oh, sure, man, that's all right. You got KO'd, right? Can't win 'em all."
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
Four quarters continue to be out of the question, which WSU proved again on a toasty Saturday afternoon on the Palouse, getting KO'ed 50-16 by Southern California in the Pac-10 opener for both teams.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2010
The rest of the sports news was much more routine, as long as you’ve gotten used to a major sport KO’ing itself with a mismanaged lockout.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2011
