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On the assumption that the non-surviving portfolios were behind the market when they went out of existence, the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s performance rank among the newsletters is at the 92nd percentile.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Lung cancer continues to rank first globally for both new diagnoses and cancer deaths, with tobacco remaining the main driver of the disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Chancellor Román would now rank developers himself and recommend to the Board of Trustees that the district enter into negotiations with the highest-ranking developer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Chicken Shop Date has since gone on to rank alongside platforms like Graham Norton's chatshow or BBC Radio 1 for celebrities seeking media cut-through, she told The Guardian, external last month.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
In a subdued voice, Kissinger said that history would one day rank Nixon among the great presidents.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Microsoft hasn’t yet carried out 1,250 of the layoffs, and, as a result, some employees say anxiety in their ranks remains high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
In disciplined, serried ranks, they wore paramilitary-style balaclavas as they blocked roads around the port.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Shane, who also coaches the junior varsity girls’ soccer team, is enjoying a return to the coaching ranks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
It said it had "immediately removed him from the ranks of the security team and expelled him from the National Rally".
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Somewhere near the ranks of American soldiers and officers stood William Lee.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Nielsen, which releases a weekly ratings ranker for streaming content, also uses hours watched to rank programs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
News, the magazine that has already established itself as the most noticed ranker of the nation’s colleges and universities.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
“Because I intend on making one that’s a whole lot ranker than we’ve had before.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
Every ranker knew a little about the mononymic three: > Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, 54, hates big cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nurse, I'm only a ranker, but I had a bit saved.
From A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Ms Kennedy told the magazine.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
The feminist with a fundamentally optimistic vision, who believed that people, especially men, could be better, might be soon replaced by the rankest misogynist.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2020
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
For the F.A., claiming to be the world’s policeman while turning a blind eye to apparent offenses at home would have been the rankest hypocrisy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
Raisins and nuts and dried ber-ries, but no lemon, that was the rankest sort of southron heresy—which was queer, since he always took lemon in his morning beer.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
To try to make sense of Journey’s path, I’ve ranked all 25 of the band’s hits that have charted on Billboard’s Hot 100, starting with the worst and ending with the best.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
So here are all 18 restaurant stocks in the S&P Composite 1500, ranked by the percentage of “buy” or equivalent ratings among analysts polled by LSEG.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Adobe tops a list of software companies ranked by cash generation, while sector heavyweights Microsoft and Oracle are at the bottom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Rokos was ranked third in The Sunday Times list of Britain's top taxpayers, having paid £330m last year, and in March said he would donate £190m to Cambridge University.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the American pantheon, with Franklin on his deathbed, he ranked second only to Washington himself.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Sabalenka hoped to soften the blow of losing the top ranking by winning a third consecutive US Open title - but looked fraught in a tense performance.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Coca-Cola’s revamped Mr. Pibb snagged No. 1 on Morning Consult’s annual Fastest Growing Brands ranking, which is based on purchase consideration in consumer surveys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Precipitation was below average, ranking in the driest third on record for both August and for the June-August period, and drought covered nearly 60 percent of the contiguous US by September 1.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
About 15 years after it ended, a former Texas labor commissioner and ranking Labor Department official overseeing the program went public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In the meantime, Permian scored an easy 49-0 win to improve its record to five and one and solidify its top-ten ranking in the statewide polls.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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