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A luxury EV effort from Sony and Honda, a high-tech vehicle dubbed Afeela, was shut down before it ever hit the road due to Honda paring back its EV offerings.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

And there was plenty of reason to be paring back on risk today, with the cease-fire in Iran looking increasingly fragile and oil prices pushing higher.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

U.S. stocks finished mostly lower, paring earlier losses, after the Federal Reserve held rates steady and Chair Jerome Powell said he would stay on the Fed board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

On Friday, they reached an intraday high of $102.63, before paring gains to roughly 2.5%, at around $101.60.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Countless similar oddities result from our conventional ways of measuring, reporting, and com paring periodic quantities, whether they be the monthly cash flow of a government or the regular daily fluctuations in body temperature.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos