slate
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The recent selloff in chip stocks followed a slate of earnings results from big cloud companies, which pointed to continued strong spending on AI infrastructure against dwindling cash flows.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Per ESPN, the Bruins’ slate was the 51st easiest coming into the season and what remains of it is the 64th easiest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
The company's Prime Video arm is also planning a slate of new film productions in Germany, according to the firm.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Markets will also parse updates on other U.S. economic data and a heavy slate of Fed speakers to gauge the likelihood of further Fed rate hikes this year, Grant says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
“Master Watson won’t give me big problems to work on my slate, just little ones I can do in my head.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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But although the faithful had successfully detected a traitor, and even managed to spell his name correctly on their slates, the first round table saw some other players behave in ways that immediately aroused suspicion.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Shareholders shouldn’t vote for the two other slates put forward, including the one that includes Lovaglio CEO candidate, as it isn’t in their interest, it says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
They’re not cardboard cutouts, exactly, but they’re blank enough slates for us to project onto.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026
Magazines, of course, didn’t originate the longstanding trope of a new year as a site of reinvention, clean slates, new leaves.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
A raw dirt alley confronted me, heaped with stacks of slates and wooden boards like grave cairns.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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The program, slated to be administrated by the California Housing Finance Agency, directs the state to create a down payment assistance fund for middle-income homebuyers, with up to $25 billion in bonds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Their representatives have only held a handful of rounds of talks, with the next one slated to be hosted by Abu Dhabi next week.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Construction is currently halted at Austin Surf Club, a Del Valle, Texas, development managed by Discovery Land Company that was slated to open in 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
The company is betting on a $30,000 EV pickup truck, slated for next year, to reinvigorate EV sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
I feel tears on her cheek, something she suppressed when I was slated for the Games.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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But the slating from fans has made Neymar reconsider his future, and attracted fresh blasts for his attitude.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
This is also the last year that the tactic of slating is likely to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2016
She skipped Thursday’s candidate slating, saying party leaders haven’t favored her before and weren’t going to pick her.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
And here we go with the usual slating.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2014
He received a slating from the Morning Post in Boston, however, just as an inkling of what a literary man might expect.
From Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans by Sherwin Cody
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