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Example Sentences
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The nerves are evident from spikes in the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, known as Wall Street’s fear gauge because it measures the price of options that investors tend to buy when expecting stock swings.
They tend to be less profitable for lenders, but they can help first-time and low-income home buyers get into the market.
"Usually over the holidays, I tend to go days where I just read and that's all I do, it's just something that helps me relax," she added.
From BBC
The fifth-generation farmer still wakes early each morning to tend to roughly 1,000 acres of corn and soybeans and 40 cattle.
"The autumn and winter months tend to be the best times to see them as there are longer periods of darkness, but the weather also has to be good."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
