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secondary

[sek-uhn-der-ee] / ˈsɛk ənˌdɛr i /




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Apotex, Canada’s largest domestic pharmaceutical company, raised C$850 million from a treasury offering and C$450 million from a secondary offering.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

UNC Management would have more of its endowment in SpaceX had it not sold shares in a secondary share sale toward the end of 2025, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

That kind of inflation has been prevalent across the tournament's 104 matches, where seats for many games remain available on secondary re-sale markets despite huge demand.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Analysis by BBC Scotland News has revealed that more than 4,000 spaces on the secondary postgraduate teacher training course, the PGDE, have not been filled in the past nine years.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

It was a government-funded, inner-city secondary school in the Islington neighborhood, not far from a set of council estates, which is what public-housing projects are called in England.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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