mainly
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Some funds are “getting sold mainly on yield,” he noted, “and people don’t understand the risk that they’re taking for it.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Electricity demand is forecast to grow an average 2.9% annually in Thailand, 3.3% in Malaysia and 5.6% in Vietnam over the next decade, driven mainly by data centers and AI workloads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even in his final years, Chatfield continued to write, mainly publishing musings on Christianity and life on his online literary journal, Syndic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Adikalie mainly subcontracts to young people across Southwark, helping them to gain work experience, and while he hopes to keep offering these opportunities, he worries poor mobile service could hold the company back.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Books of drawings produced in the early modern period are mainly intended to advertise an engineer’s skills, not to provide you with the information you would need to do the job yourself.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
