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Spreads for an AI basket have been trading wide to levels for the broader investment-grade corporate index, as seen in the chart below from Morgan Stanley.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Lake Como is 29 miles long and 2.5 miles wide in some parts - you also come across a yacht club and an 'Aero Club' for the sea-planes that take off at regular intervals.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
He’s wide awake when he should be asleep because the middle of the night also happens to be his favorite time to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Rams wide receiver Davante Adams will miss six to 10 weeks with a ruptured hamstring and Kobie Turner will be placed on injured reserve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
As it flew over us, it made a wide circle, dipped its wings, and flew on.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Great Britain is integrated with wider European gas markets and physically linked to the continent through undersea pipelines.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
That means about 99% of the contacts have been traced and isolated, in order to prevent Ebola from spreading to the wider population.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
For the fourth quarter, Alaska Air expects an adjusted loss of $2.00 to $2.50 a share, wider than the $1.19 loss analysts expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
SpaceX credited new cloud services agreements, wider adoption of its Grok chatbot and its acquisition of Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding startup.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
I open the door wider and smile at Helena, who is shivering in her coat, peeking around one side of the toilets.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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“Wildwood” is both the widest release and “highest-profile title” Fathom has ever done, according to Jason Brenek, Fathom’s chief executive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The spread between France’s 10-year government bond and Germany’s equivalent reached its widest last week in available Bloomberg data, dating back to 1990.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Its 22% discount was one of the widest of any U.S. closed-end fund that invested in public securities, according to the fund’s semiannual report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Give your eyes around 20 to 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness and look towards the widest unobstructed area of sky possible.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“They have the widest backs. They measure them. How do you feel, Tenente?”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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