spartan
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“That’s relieving to the market,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
The war comes to be defined by the Spartan general Brasidas, who goes on to wrong-foot Thucydides in 424 B.C., and Cleon, who may have engineered Thucydides’ exile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
This broke down by degrees, critically in the Sicilian Expedition of 415-413 B.C., when Athens tried and failed to annex Syracuse, a Spartan ally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
He ran marathons and finished grueling Spartan Races.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
It was partly because of our complaining, and the desire to show us how the Spartan boy would have had his tonsils out, that Dad decided to have only a local anesthetic for his operation.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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