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reserve

[ri-zurv] / rɪˈzɜrv /






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Maintaining a cash reserve to avoid selling investments during a market downturn is a sensible approach.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

In some cases, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, reserve players did not travel to the tournament.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

The Philippines is also establishing its first strategic petroleum reserve program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

In other words, the reserves his company and others have been tapping — including the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve, which is supposed to be used only for global emergencies — are about to run out.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

Now, with Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, moral certainty was required to give way to a new sort of temporary knowledge, a purely provisional understanding.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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