demand
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Because airfare is highly sensitive to demand, the busiest travel days generally coincide with the highest prices, while less-crowded days can mean savings — or even a more appealing nonstop flight.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Battery energy storage systems charge when electricity is plentiful and demand is relatively low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Sarah Raffoul, analytics manager at Argus Media, noted that while higher international prices would eventually curb demand, the immediate gap would severely strain trade relationships and accelerate global inflation.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
But CPUs are experiencing an AI renaissance, and investors seem more upbeat about the potential for multiple years of robust demand in that part of the market than they are for the memory market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The timing of this demand seems to place in doubt the motives for your federation's not insisting at first for a forfeit on the first game.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Mejia wasn’t prepared to lay out his next steps if LA28 doesn’t comply with his demands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Pushpa Sundar, who briefly served as a civil servant and has written extensively on development issues, says officers can face political pressure and transfers when they refuse to comply with demands.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
As demands grew into calls for snap elections, so did Vucic's and his supporters' pushback.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Those demands could run into Grand Teton’s rules for special events.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
“We shall not go back until our demands are met,” Thambi said.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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City Controller Kenneth Mejia demanded last month that LA28, the private nonprofit producing the Games, release a much more detailed accounting of its activities than it has in yearly reports to City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
If the proposed route is correct, moving the Altar Stone to Stonehenge would have demanded significant cooperation among Neolithic communities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The activist investor recently demanded that contact-lens maker Cooper Cos. replace its chief executive and consider selling its core businesses, the Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Texas lawmaker Joaquin Castro, a Democrat, on Tuesday demanded the Venezuelan national's release from detention.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
But I kept walking, steeled only by the strength from Olka’s elbow, which I was grasping, less as the part demanded than as a crutch I needed.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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In the case of a beneficiary demanding more money, that would be spelled out in the trust documents.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
"We are demanding that this decree-law be enacted, to protect the right to housing and prevent evictions," said Carlota, a 29-year-old protester who spend the night among the tents set up in the touristic square.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
A kitchen can demand excellence without demanding suffering.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Fortune's death left the local community on edge and lawmakers demanding federal probes.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
In late July 1919, miners walked out at Allegheny Coal & Coke in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, demanding the company recognize the union.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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