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prospect

[pros-pekt] / ˈprɒs pɛkt /




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She has reduced her asking price multiple times, as potential buyers flagged the upcoming data center as an unappealing prospect.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

But at USC, those who have watched Wafle for months now say it’s basically what they’ve come to expect from the Trojans’ top defensive prospect.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Storage levels are significantly lower than usual for this time of year, with countries facing the prospect of rushing to buy gas now or paying potentially higher prices when the winter comes.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

It’s the kind of thankless task many professors would flee from, but Boyagoda relished the prospect and thinks the group, which is ongoing, made progress.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Master Gogolev was quite renewed by the prospect of lunch, and the small round loaf he still carried in his pocket made the excitement nearly unbearable.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Reached for comment, Chevron CEO emeritus Mike Wirth issued a statement: “For the 1,000th time, we know Venezuela—and are ready to invest when the security situation, legal terms, infrastructure requirements and economic prospects warrant.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Consequently, “if the stock market pulls back inflation should recede, growth prospects dim and the Fed back away from hikes,” he says.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

Rickard, from the Common App, said yield usually runs lower for direct admissions because schools have less time to court prospects, many of whom know little about the institution beforehand.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

There's no doom and gloom about the place despite them losing several key players and, after predicting they would lose their first two games, I feel differently about their prospects now.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman—almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

JOHANNESBURG—For years, hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas prospected for gold on this patch of land on the outskirts of the city with hammers and chisels in hand-dug tunnels.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

Small fragments of the specimen were "prospected" using ultraviolet lights at night.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2023

Bolsonaro’s father prospected for gold at Serra Pelada, where Dirceu first saw gold mining, and the president sometimes draws on his upbringing to rally support from prospectors.

From Seattle Times Jan. 12, 2022

"He's prospected through here pretty closely, since he came out first, and so have his brothers; and they're convinced that the only paying mines will be found in the mountains."

From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

By covering more ground in less time, they could improve both resource prospecting and the search for signs of past life.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2026

In January, the government proposed opening 70 new blocs to prospecting, more than half of them in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

In a more modern twist, there’s also social-media gold: the biggest YouTube accounts devoted to prospecting boast more than half a million followers.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 13, 2025

Fergusson has been prospecting as a hobby for about a decade, and finally bought his own claim after searching around for five years.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2024

Soon after Thanksgiving, we deployed two reporters to go prospecting.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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