glamour stock

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noun

a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

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So Marvin had the old showbiz glamour in his life from the start.
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In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.
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I said that mixture of glamour and vulnerability is potent, especially if you can sense the vulnerability.
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If his 20s were about traveling and his 30s “about taking stock,” he hopes his 40s will be about “building and expanding.”
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The obnoxious meddling journalist is a stock character in fiction.
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Neither privately owned nor government stock is entitled to voting power.
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I didn't take much stock in the yarn at the time, but I'm beginning to think he had it straight.
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One day she had heard a man say, "If there is a drought we shall have the devil to pay with our stock before winter is over."
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The white ranchmen in the valley were all fencing in their lands; no more free running of stock.
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