straight
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The stock is on its longest losing streak in more than a year, dropping for seven straight trading sessions.
That pattern held last year, when the S&P 500 rose 2.7% in January and then 13.3% through the rest of the year, and has correctly predicted full-year performance for the past four straight years.
From Barron's
After three consecutive years of gains, the S&P 500 has a 50% chance of a fourth straight year of increases.
From Barron's
If such denials can be made with a straight face, they may carry the day when a prosecution is at stake.
Over the holiday season, there were online pile-ons galore, with straight women repeatedly taking gay critics of the show to task over their negative or merely interrogative opinions of the series.
From Salon
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