spate

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The recent spate of higher international oil prices are also expected to reaccelerate inflation and further weigh on consumers.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Amazon has suffered a spate of outages, some of them lasting hours, since it began entrusting more software coding responsibilities to AI bots while laying off human engineers, according to the Financial Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Torbjorn Soltvedt, an analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft, said the incident marked a major uptick in tensions in the Gulf following a spate of barrages fired by Iran across the region.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

The firm has faced investor angst and redemption requests after investors got spooked by a spate of high-profile corporate defaults.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

A spate of loud but indistinct shouting drew us all out onto the balcony.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang