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Back in March and early April, jet fuel was priced much higher than diesel, but the price difference has narrowed, BloombergNEF’s Velamala said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

The gap between the market’s earnings yield and bond yields has narrowed, a measure that has at times predicted subpar stock returns.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Once a scrappy underdog in a race that OpenAI appeared to have already won, the gap between the two companies has narrowed significantly this year, with new data suggesting Anthropic’s growth continues to accelerate rapidly.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

That gap has narrowed rapidly, thanks to work McLaren has done alongside Mercedes, to the extent that team principal Andrea Stella said in Japan that he "didn't think that we have left much unexploited".

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Over the past weeks in Paris, in the hours between other tasks, he has narrowed a list of seven lapidaries to three, then to one: a half-Algerian named Dupont who came of age cutting opal.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr