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Example Sentences
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“He just can’t stand not playing basketball. He loves the game so much and wants to play every night. And that’s an incredible quality. Just a player who’s like fighting and clawing to play versus looking for a reason maybe not to. So we commend Luka for that. In terms of this injury, the good news is it doesn’t appear to be anything serious. It was a mild hamstring strain and he is truly day-to-day.”
From Los Angeles Times
“The index does a good job of showing what was versus what is.”
With the stock diving 13.9% in two weeks to wipe out $481.3 billion in market capitalization, it now trades at 22.3-times forward earnings, according to FactSet data, versus its five-year average of 29.5.
From MarketWatch
It has saved roughly $50,000 on an annualized basis by eliminating tools like the project-management platform Asana and others in recent months, and an internal team is now weighing what to build versus buy.
This Super Bowl, the game to watch is prediction markets versus sportsbooks.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.