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  • plural of stock.
  • present tense form of stock (3rd person singular).
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stocks

NOUN
holdings
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While tech stocks and some industrial names tied to the artificial-intelligence build-out slumped this week, the average stock in the increasingly top-heavy S&P 500 made it through a difficult week largely unscathed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Find insight on Wise Group, Ethereum, banking stocks and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Related: U.S. wealth has shifted to stocks from homes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Many see the AI trade, once a monolithic bet on chip stocks and hyperscalers, splintering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Behind his innocent façade of a doctor without prestige there was hidden a terrorist who with his short-legged boots covered the scars that five years in the stocks had left on his legs.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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