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Prosecutors had asked for a stiff sentence for what they termed a “massive fraud” that involved hundreds of thousands of victims.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Colossal’s approach to communicating its work with what I termed last year “unsparing razzmatazz” is playing with fire.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

In 2021, as price growth began accelerating in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, Powell termed the increase transitory, a product of supply-chain bottlenecks and other post-Covid distortions that it assumed would resolve.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

One study found a sharp rise in what it termed "problematic" social media use among children since the pandemic.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

For example, a previously unknown fever termed O’nyong-nyong fever appeared in East Africa in 1959 and proceeded to infect several million Africans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond