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Net exports subtracted 3.32 percentage points from top-line GDP growth owing to increased imports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
As for the economy, the AI bust wiped out 500,000 lost jobs in nonresidential construction owing to the bust of AI infrastructure, and Asian supply chains were it hard.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Of the ship itself there is now nothing to see, owing to underwater exposure.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
She qualified for that year's World Championships, Commonwealth Games and European Championships in what was an unusually condensed season owing to the backlog from the pandemic.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
There was some excuse for this, since he had only a slit to peep through—and that was three inches away from his eye owing to the padding of straw—but be looked muddled as well.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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