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consumer

[kuhn-soo-mer] / kənˈsu mər /
NOUN
person who buys merchandise, services
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Under his stewardship, Micron exited the cyclical consumer business and focused laser-like on enterprise-grade memory for data centers.

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

Economists expect a 0.1% monthly decline in the headline consumer price index, but the majority of attention will be on the extent to which elevated oil prices are affecting underlying inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

In many facilities, cooling is the largest energy consumer after the computing equipment itself.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026

U.S. consumer spending is expected to rise by $32 billion, significantly more than the $5 billion from the Eras Tour.

From Barron's • Jun. 19, 2026

Because Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products.

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




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