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Restaurants discarded over 50 pounds of beluga caviar likely worth tens of thousands of dollars, one said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The result was that lone inventors were less likely to achieve major breakthroughs and more likely to create particularly poor inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

A combination of both would have likely pushed stocks even deeper into the red at the close of the first quarter.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Reaves was diagnosed with a Grade 2 left oblique muscle injury and will be out for the rest of the regular season, and likely into the playoffs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

More likely, he’d be chased out with flaming pitchforks, like in that book about the girl and the beast.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman