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IPOs by definition are stock events, but options trading will likely become the main event.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
"Repealing the defence would, by definition, make this kind of reasonable parental behaviour prosecutable."
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
The tools available to retail investors are, almost by definition, those that have not demonstrated enough edge to be worth keeping private.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
To be sure, what theologians were investigating was, by definition, mysterious—unprovable in the way that scientific propositions are provable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Indeed, if it were, it would by definition not be random.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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