Example Sentences

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Targeting nominal GDP rather than inflation can minimize the damage from supply shocks.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said: "Targeting journalists, obstructing access to them by relief teams, and even targeting their locations again after these teams arrive constitutes described war crimes."

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Targeting priorities have shifted to inflicting lasting damage to industrial sites, as hopes of regime change fade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Targeting this gene could open the door to preventing or treating a large share of dementia cases worldwide.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

The media reported that he had called on the computer industry to boycott any company which chose to employ Robert T. Morris Jr. Targeting Spaf therefore served a dual purpose for the Australian hackers.

From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette