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[kuhm-puh-nee] / ˈkʌm pə ni /




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“If any company sells a product that causes massive harm, they’ll get sued into oblivion,” he shared on X. “That’s how companies go broke and rich people become poor people.”

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

Chiltern Railways has been brought into public ownership after 30 years as a private company.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

While SpaceX prepares to put its Starship rocket in orbit for the first time, foreign countries like China are looking to develop their own technology to rival Elon Musk’s company.

From MarketWatch Sep. 20, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has predicted that AI would lead to the first one-person company worth $1 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Mom would be proud of our new company.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Large-language models built by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic keep breaking out of their testing sandboxes.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

That substantially increased the financial exposure of the plan and jeopardy to its member companies, experts said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Among the convention’s big winners were companies promising to help people buy citizenship elsewhere or, as one such company advertised, “diversify your passport portfolio.”

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

More than seven million new one-person companies were established in China last year, representing an increase of about 42% compared with 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Schools, local governments, and private companies used it to fire, expel, or exclude anyone considered disloyal to the United States.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

It handed lucrative contracts to the country’s biggest construction companied.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2016

The companied initially tried to list its shares on the Hong Kong Exchange, which would seem to be a friendly home.

From Time Sep. 19, 2014

And presumably it is at least an implication of Bacon's dictum that our poor illiterate lonely hordes are neither companied nor "full", for reading accomplisheth fullness.

From The Guardian Feb. 17, 2011

Generals and admirals in varied uniforms, sun helmets, marine wool jackets, coveralls, khakis and tin hats, ac companied him on an inspection tour.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in another place the same poet says— I think no words, if companied by gain, Pernicious or unworthy.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 4, 2018

As it turned out, the U.S. newsmen ac companying Nixon faced dangers of their own when the Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day.

From Time Magazine Archive

And companying so much with rich people would fill her mind with vanity.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Amanda Minnie Douglas

You are a sad crew," began the King, eyeing them pleasantly, and sitting forward with a hand on either knee, "and I am astonished, my Lord of Canterbury, at your companying with them.

From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson

If Denas is companying with Roland Tresham she oughtn’t to do it, and I must tell her so, that I must.

From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr




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