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“News flow about increasingly frequent satellite launches and increasingly useful LEO satellite-based network services are rightly drawing investors’ attention,” Stein wrote in a note to clients this week, referring to low-Earth-orbit satellites.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

One of them is unable to muster a genuine-looking smile and the other looks rightly embarrassed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

UCU general secretary Jo Grady said staff were "rightly outraged that management wants to slash pension benefits, tear up local and national agreements and divide the workforce".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has also criticized the CEO's conduct, saying he was "very disappointed, as others are, rightly so, in this unilingual message."

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Pathos and proprietorship, rightly applied to a nature like Lancelot’s, might have been successful in binding him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White