defensibility
Americannoun
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He listed seven software stocks that scored high on the new criteria — factors such as AI defensibility, the cost for customers to switch platforms, and the companies’ pricing models.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
As its sprawling sloth and dwindling defensibility make it more vulnerable to tides of public feeling, the House of Windsor seems doomed to repeat its errors until it either unravels or assumes a new form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
People talk about defensibility and network effects, but Samsung owns a mountain in Korea where all of the minerals come from to make those screens, so you have to go to Samsung.
From The Verge ● Apr. 12, 2022
I disagreed with this decision, but found that it still had a patina of defensibility.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2019
They are always close to the stream bed, seldom more than 10 or 12 feet above it, and the sites were chosen apparently without any reference to their defensibility.
From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff
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