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“The mere prospect there could be a call is enough to chill agency heads,” Graham Steele, a former Treasury assistant secretary for financial institutions, told me.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

It's a frightening prospect for the rest of the field.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Last year, Morgan Stanley says, one-fifth of the buying demand for gold originated with ETFs, however that positive sentiment has been disrupted by the Gulf crisis, and the prospect of rate hikes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Epstein continued to hold out the prospect of modelling work to Anya, introducing her to Jean-Luc Brunel, founder of the MC2 agency.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

“I’ve never tried. And I wouldn’t relish the prospect, little one! The snake and I would probably both end up dead.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The broader goal of the project is to improve survival prospects and quality of life for men with advanced prostate cancer.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

This year’s negative prices were too much for some producers, who turned drilling rigs away from their gassier prospects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

With such dire prospects, the Rohingyas' only hope is to get out to another country.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Netflix on Thursday reported higher revenues and profit in the second quarter as it sought to assure investors about its growth prospects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Hamilton was hardly unique in his recognition that the vast resources of the North American continent constituted a repository of riches that, once unlocked, offered prospects of unparalleled prosperity and national destiny.

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

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

Britain prospected Peruvian bark trees and grew them in India, having first transplanted them to Kew, one of many botanical gardens that served as a center for medical and colonial botany.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2018

Miners prospected for gold and other minerals across Owyhee County starting in the 1860s, drilling into the hills of the Owyhee Front until World War II slowed the work to a standstill.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2018

So we prospected along it till we came here.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

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

Though “mine” implies tunnels, the prospecting at La Ciénega took place over a vast area — about 14,000 acres — largely near the surface.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

That money's up to over $100 million today, but the point is that with all of the negotiations, all that prospecting, the guy that was bussing the table had the most money in the room.

From Salon ● May 18, 2024

Besides that I have not given up prospecting.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote