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Barth also expects that Canadian Natural achieving its net debt targets ahead of expectations and ramping up shareholder returns will be received positively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Now there will be a net gain of 18,000 homes over the same period, it calculates.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Capital inflows and deployment helped driven Brookfield’s net income in the third quarter to $2.65 billion, or $1.64 cents a share, up sharply from $724 million, or 44 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
According to Forbes, Musk’s net worth now stands at about $789.5 billion, down 9% on Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
He came close enough this time to grab the metal loop of my net and start jerking on it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The $1 million fund netted a nearly 24% return on several-dozen bags over a 15-month span.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
In the German Cup he scored 10 goals, including a hat-trick in the 3-0 win over Stuttgart in the final, and he also netted once in the German Super Cup.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Both kinds of calls netted agreement from a little over 50% of both strangers and friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
The rosier view comes after the company netted sales of 374.2 million euros for the year’s third quarter, up 13.5% from a year earlier, and picking up a little pace from the first six months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
After a pause Rick said to the clerk, a heavy-jowled, middle-aged woman with netted gray hair, “Do you have a print of Munch’s Puberty?”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Fear not, netting surrounding the exhibit will keep errant drones from slamming into unwitting museum visitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Should the funds be issued to the private sector as loans, these would be viewed as financial assets for the public sector, netting off the financial liability from increased government borrowing, Skarica says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Obsession” became the biggest box office surprise of this year, netting over $523 million worldwide on a reported $750,000 budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
He scored the opening goal in England's 2-0 win against the Czech Republic on Tuesday night, after also netting in a 3-2 defeat by world champions Spain at Wembley on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
I pressed my face close to the window, close to the small tear in the mosquito netting that Amaka blamed for letting in every moth that flapped around the light bulb at night.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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