spartan
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“The metal still looks headed higher, with new milestones yet to be achieved,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist with Spartan Capital Securities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
“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
He ran marathons and finished grueling Spartan Races.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
The Mother Superior received her in her Spartan office, where there was an immense, bloody Christ on the wall and an incongruous spray of red roses on the table.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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