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MarketWatch: What is the biggest mistake individual investors are making right now, and what should they do instead?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Overall the ambition is heading in the right direction but we think the market will wait for delivery,” the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Especially when, after telling Max that she is going snorkeling, Sara gets left behind amid a bloom of jellyfish right out of “Finding Nemo.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
"I'd stopped everything, but he encouraged me and when I did lift a bar again, yes, it felt so natural, it felt right and that was very exciting."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Nah, he does that stuff by himself. He doesn’t need me. In fact, he makes all the snacks around here. That’s the deal, right, Paul?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
All of these assets are jointly held with rights of survivorship.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Civil rights attorneys alleged in the recent court filing that the baseball cards increased the likelihood that agents would pursue and arrest people who were not the intended targets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
With Durban stripped of the rights to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games after failing to meet key milestones or provide financial guarantees, Birmingham stepped in.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Estimates for its losses when ISL, which negotiated World Cup rights deals, went bust in 2001 were anywhere between $30mn and $115mn.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
The entire thrust of the colonists’ justification for independence was to reject that designation on the grounds that they possessed all the rights of British citizens.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
The time has never been righter, it seems to me.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022
Cat burglar, con artist, master of disguise, Lupin is also a brilliant detective and righter of wrongs.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2021
“As a solver of mysteries and a righter of historical wrongs, I live for this stuff,” Zax said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Had Documenta 14 been lighter, brighter and righter, not to mention a box-office hit, would its budgetary overdraw have been grounds for disgrace?
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017
“You couldn’t be righter, dear,” she said, and she patted his royal robes.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
"I don't fancy her chances much either way," said everyone else, and they were probably the rightest of all.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
Ali meanwhile had managed the rightest kind of job as an assistant to Fashion Photographer Melvin Sokolsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's got pictorial dazzle and an uncommon generosity of spirit, and it ends with the sweetest, rightest shot of the movie year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh! at least it is a comfort that Alick was really the kindest and rightest!
From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
They replied, "This is the rightest of redes; moreover the Youth, a fair and a pleasant, becometh her well and she likewise besitteth him; and their lot is a wondrous."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
He righted the ship with a birdie at the par-five 13th, where he missed the green but chipped to three feet from dense rough well below the green.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
“It’s upside down. A lot of people say that it was actually upside down before, and we just righted it,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
Doesn’t such an injustice need to be righted as soon as possible?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
For Ms Ming, it is vital the story reaches new audiences across the country, showing some injustices can, in fact, be righted.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
As if in protest, the korablik gave a half spin in a sudden gust, then righted itself.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Kennedy says in the filing that righting the wrong would mean “enforcement of USC’s promises” as well as “appropriate relief for the plaintiff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The quarter prior revealed some success in righting the ship in the U.S., but significantly worse performance in China, which is becoming a much smaller part of the business,” she added.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Smith added that the deal would make "real progress" towards righting the "historic wrong" of pay erosion for staff over the past two decades.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
The former president didn’t pretend that righting the ship would be easy.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
“We know it’s not your fault, Alter,” Mrs. Brenner said, righting the fallen chairs.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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