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"The natural state for bands is entropy. Everything falls to chaos. But it's kind of amazing, because it's happened the other way around for us," he says.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

At his first press conference as Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh suggested that he wants the market to tell the Fed what it thinks interest rates should be—and not the other way around.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

In a statement to The Times, Gutierrez said he is “cautiously optimistic” about his collaboration with Amazon MGM Studios: “Artists driving tech, and not the other way around, is my goal.”

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

But lately, things have been working the other way around — helping to fuel what has been, by some measures, a historic stock-market comeback after a difficult first quarter.

From MarketWatch May 17, 2026

I ditched them, but it felt the other way around.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green




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