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sightly

[sahyt-lee] / ˈsaɪt li /


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Relative to the S&P 500, the large banks’ P/E is only sightly below its 10-year average, but it is well below KBW’s longer-term average of 69%, cited above.

From MarketWatch Dec. 30, 2025

“I’d still probably give sightly better than even odds of 2024 being warmer,” Hausfather said.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2024

For full-year 2022, the California-based company sightly raised its forecast for adjusted earnings per share to between $6.35 to $6.75 from a previous view of $6.20 to $6.70.

From Reuters Aug. 2, 2022

Sometimes if it looks like a sightly so-so set of hurled-together elite teams and quacks like a sightly so-so set of hurled-together elite teams, well, you get the idea.

From The Guardian Aug. 10, 2017

Viwe was a sightly but shy girl who stayed close to her mother’s hip as she gave me a quick hug.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

As one of the sightlier parts of Northern California, with its majestic oaks and gaudy colors, Napa has some of the highest real estate prices in America and some of its most expensive hotel rooms.

From New York Times May 9, 2020

Manhattan holds no sightlier, more in- telligent playfulness than theirs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Restored at once to manhood, they appear’d More vig’rous far, and sightlier than before.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

There ain't a sightlier place in the world for a house.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

It did seem as if airmen, who must be brimming like full cups with wine of romance and imagination, ought to have invented sightlier houses for their beloved machines.

From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

He was a big man and a strong, the sightliest of men and a good skald; and when he was fully grown he fared between sundry lands, and was well accounted of wherever he came.

From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by William Morris

I keep it in the sightliest place, where the eye of man can fall on it at first.

From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

It's near about the sightliest place I ever see.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various

It's one of the sightliest places in the country, and here's the very spot "--he covered it with his huge forefinger--"where my father found that paint, more than forty--years--ago.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

One of the sightliest of these was situated on a little hillock, about half a mile from the sea, which we ascended.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr




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