down the road
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“You can’t just keep kicking the can down the road and doing nothing about this,” said Mantel, a tenants’ rights lawyer who lives in Park La Brea.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
There are essentially no useful humanoid robots working in the economy now, but Wall Street sees trillions in potential revenue down the road.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
It is creating productivity gains and efficiency benefits and it translates directly to earnings growth, regardless of its impact on labor markets that probably won’t be fully understood until further down the road.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026
However, that would just push the problem down the road a few months to the 2027-28 Scottish budget, to be drawn up in December.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
The Recollection skipped forward, moving through flashes of bright images, slowing into real time only when a second car barreled down the road.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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