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Chip stocks have been crushing software, but investors have a way to bet on both.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Software stocks have been crushing chip stocks to a never-before-seen degree — at least if you adopt a very short time horizon.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

What could have been crushing pressure was dimmed by the vision boards — the “mental rehearsal,” as Hollingdale labeled it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2025

For Rangers, who turned up with a vengeance, and went toe-to-toe all day, it’ll have been crushing.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

The result would have been crushing, had not General Potty been left for some hours utterly without ammunition; Commissary Scuttlebutt is loudly blamed.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis