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opportunity

[op-er-too-ni-tee, -tyoo-] / ˌɒp ərˈtu nɪ ti, -ˈtyu- /


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The space race between SpaceX, Amazon.com and others is heating up — and that may spell opportunity for investors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

A new edition offers American readers a fresh opportunity to encounter this erudite, deliciously dark narrative about growing older but not quite wiser.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Although those can act as competition for Nvidia’s graphics-processing units, there is also an opportunity for Nvidia to get more business by making its own hardware compatible with Marvell’s.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Simril said with the World Cup, Super Bowl and Olympic Games coming to Los Angeles over the next two years, “We have a generational opportunity to align the biggest moment in sports.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

And now opportunity was the word the social worker was using when he informed the boy that he had arranged for him to spend the summer volunteering at Shady Glen Retirement Home.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman