implied
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They claim that his alleged speeding does not meet the legal standard for implied malice, meaning to act with a conscious disregard for human life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Global capital markets have recorded sharp volatility recently, with pullbacks for major Chinese and global indices and rising implied volatility, Meng notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
As large swings in individual stocks have recently dwarfed moves for the S&P 500 as a whole, the spread between two important gauges of implied volatility has expanded to its widest level on record.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Citigroup dropped 5%, after management implied that returns in the second half wouldn’t be as strong as they were in the first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But something else is implied, which comes to the fore if we ask ourselves what we mean when we say that something “has no style.”
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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