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substantially

[suhb-stan-shuh-lee] / səbˈstæn ʃə li /


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“As long as flows don’t recover substantially, the path of least resistance remains to the upside for oil prices,” said Giovanni Staunovo, commodity analyst at UBS.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

“While McCormick’s M&A track record is a positive precedent, the scale of this potential transaction represents a substantially greater order of magnitude,” Powers wrote on Tuesday.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

"Overall, our results showed that multidimensional joint encoding substantially increased the information carried by a single holographic data page, thereby improving storage capacity," said Tan.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

While Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies have grown their private-market valuations substantially in recent months, this isn’t the first time that closed-end funds offering access to flashy private companies have trended.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

From what I am able to scan, it does not look that substantially different from the laboratory.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga