lure
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A report in the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday said OpenAI’s chief executive officer Sam Altman is urgently exploring options to lure corporate customers away from its main competitor Anthropic.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Investors fear that perps may lure retail investors away from short-dated options and other adrenaline-fueled bets that have been a key revenue driver for the traditional exchanges in recent years.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
They were able to supplement their diet by towing a fishing lure behind the boat, another activity that was not without its dramas.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
The biggest companies are paying out hundreds of millions of dollars to lure top researchers and tens of billions to build data centers, while financing losses as they build their AI businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
There, they had placed another lure: an enchanted burlap-sack Beefy, complete with his clothes, so the monstruo would be able to smell him.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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