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Any sudden leadership crisis raises difficult questions about control of North Korea's nuclear weapons and the prospect of political instability.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

That’s a dispiriting prospect, since smaller stocks have already suffered a lot since hitting a high earlier this year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Affordable housing is in high demand due to rising poverty rates, and it’s often a complicated prospect for seniors who earn just enough to get by but not enough to qualify.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Traders are likely weighing the prospect of further Federal Reserve rate increases this year following a run of hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation data, says Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Trent Saunders in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

“At present,” he observed, “there is no more prospect of seeing a French army here than there is in Heaven.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

And people are tense about their job prospects, with many staying where they are for now because hiring is tepid.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Those frustrations reflected a feeling by many voters that they were unheard by traditional parties, while students and young workers expressed anxiety about future prospects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

He said he was also concerned about the impact AI may have on the availability of jobs, but added that he was "positive" about his future prospects.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The German logistics company attributed the upgrade to positive momentum and prospects of a strong seasonal peak in the fourth quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Come on, Buckeye. Let’s see what these prospects look like. Little looking ahead to the Senior Send-Off, baby!”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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

When I’ve prospected around a little more I’ll tell you which place I’ll take, and how much it will require to keep up.”

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford

Egypt's border force said in June that it had seized 86 tonnes of gold ore along with amateur prospecting equipment.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The city tries to keep its idiosyncratic businesses going while prospecting for newcomers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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

But with gold prices reaching record highs, he’s taken up a new one: prospecting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

In 1898, prospecting led him to a nearly vacant trail crossing that the trappers called Edmonton, where he found that the soil was the perfect medium for making brick.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand