XYZ
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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“What happens on bullion desks is that the gold market goes up $50 or $100, and client XYZ, who hasn’t bought enough of it, calls the desk and asks, ‘Should I buy silver?’”
From MarketWatch
“I don’t believe the bottom is in…the market expects outsized swings as we head into the new year,” Nick Forster, founder at crypto options platform Derive.xyz, wrote in a Tuesday note.
From Barron's
I hired you to do XYZ, do XYZ and shut your mouth.’
From Literature
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“I have walked through fire and I continue to walk through fire in my personal life with friends saying, ‘I can’t hang out with you anymore because you said XYZ’ or that they’re afraid to be seen in my presence,” Nnaji told me.
“Be wary of therapies that are sold to you with testimonials. If you go to a clinic website and they have dozens of quotes from parents saying, ‘This changed my child’s life in XYZ ways,’ that isn’t the same as evidence,” Gross told The Times last year.
From Los Angeles Times
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