prospect
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And the Dodgers are one of the few teams that could reasonably part with the prospect capital it would take to acquire the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
“This raises the prospect of simultaneous disruption to both Gulf and Red Sea export routes,” Jim Reid, global head of macroeconomic research and thematic strategy at Deutsche Bank, wrote in a note on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Officials will not prevent players from visiting the touchline as an injury is treated but it is hoped the prospect of playing with 10 players for a minute will act as an adequate disincentive.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The England youth international is a highly rated prospect and there were glimpses here of why.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
“He may even have deceived himself into this belief. But if a prospect opens, the world will see and he will feel that he is as ambitious as Oliver Cromwell, though no soldier.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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She also had full custody of her baby and toddler and limited job prospects.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Dodgers have shown a willingness in the past to give up top prospects for starting pitching when they see a need.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The 24-year-old is one of India's strongest boxing gold-medal prospects at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, looking to improve on the bronze she won at Birmingham 2022.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Analysts say the prospects for personal-computer CPUs look more mixed, and they’re awaiting more information about the company’s foundry business.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
He had all sorts of prospects that he was on the brink of realizing.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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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
Arctic Drilling ASA, a company owned by a local man, Roy Karlsen, prospected on a ring of mountains that surrounded a fjord.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019
One had prospected east of the Runaway, and the other west.
From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.
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
The rise in clicks on his posts -- and the related increase in commissions he makes on sales of products he uses in his prospecting -- has generated a new income source for James.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2025
In Sacramento, Cody Blanchard, 35, had been gold-hunting for several years in Northern California before starting his own business selling equipment and offering prospecting tours last year.
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
Hazel put the gold prospecting sign back over her mementos.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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