spartan
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The question was about the student section’s harassment of former Spartan Xavier Booker, which seemed like a legitimate query considering Booker had a terrible game.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
“That’s relieving to the market,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
Ms. Rosenwein quotes the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus, summarizing his opinion that “when a white-haired man falls to the enemy, he is a ‘shameful sight,’ whereas a young man dead on the battlefield is beautiful.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 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
“And he’ll have to put up with rather Spartan accommodations in the attic, because my library has grown a great deal over the last few years. Nearly all my guest bedrooms are full of books.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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