stoked

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The confrontational Portnoy seems to intuit that controversies aren’t to be softened but stoked, even staged, for more attention.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026

A third-party report recently stoked fears about memory pricing, according to Mizuho’s O’Regan.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

Krishna at Barclays says that historically low correlations within the S&P 500 sectors suggest idiosyncratic earnings, while noting concentration changes stoked volatility.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

It was a testament to an intimacy fueled by shared experience, the kind stoked both by live music and watercooler television at its best.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

Both of these stoves were stoked with seal blubber and could boil two and a half gallons of water from ice in half an hour.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong