state of affairs
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Meanwhile, the company’s peers have been maxing out spending on AI with limited returns to show for it, a state of affairs investors are no longer uniformly happy about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
This unusual state of affairs has given rise to what economists call a “low-hire, low-fire” labor market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Twenty-one years later, Lieberman revealed the truth in what proved to be an early peek at the current state of affairs in high school basketball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Yabloko supporter Yevgenia, 22, told AFP before the decision that she would vote for the party to show the government that "we are not satisfied with the current state of affairs in the world".
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
In many countries they’ve been granted equal rights; many people, mainly women, but also men, now realize how wrong it was to tolerate this state of affairs for so long.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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