as in companies
a commercial or industrial activity or organization
merged with another firm to become a major player in the brokerage business
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Recent Examples of firms
To be sure, Wall Street overall is bullish on stocks, with many of the big firms ditching their cautious tones and urging investors not to bet against the market.
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Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
What Happens Next The law firms are asking anyone who may have been impacted by the data breach to fill out forms on their website or contact their offices.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Matt Priest, president and CEO of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers Association, said in a telephone interview that many of the footwear products firms front loaded in early pre-tariff deliveries — particularly in women’s shoes — have sold through.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
For one thing, they are typically obligated, by the venture-capital firms that fund them, to grow as quickly as possible.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
Keurig Dr Pepper is turning to two private equity firms to ease shareholder concerns that its coffee megamerger will leave the company on shaky ground.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
The study draws on forecasts from over 15,000 analysts tracking 9,000 public firms, representing around $111 trillion of the $130 trillion global equity market, or nearly 85% of its total value.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
By deploying solvers on scalable cloud platforms, firms avoid the need for expensive local hardware, lowering barriers for CAE adoption among businesses.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
What Happens Next The law firms are asking anyone who may have been impacted by the data breach to fill out forms on their website or contact their offices.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Matt Priest, president and CEO of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers Association, said in a telephone interview that many of the footwear products firms front loaded in early pre-tariff deliveries — particularly in women’s shoes — have sold through.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
For one thing, they are typically obligated, by the venture-capital firms that fund them, to grow as quickly as possible.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2025
Keurig Dr Pepper is turning to two private equity firms to ease shareholder concerns that its coffee megamerger will leave the company on shaky ground.
—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
The study draws on forecasts from over 15,000 analysts tracking 9,000 public firms, representing around $111 trillion of the $130 trillion global equity market, or nearly 85% of its total value.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
By deploying solvers on scalable cloud platforms, firms avoid the need for expensive local hardware, lowering barriers for CAE adoption among businesses.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firms
companies
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Comcast One of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies, the conglomerate owns NBCUniversal, which includes film studios such as Universal Pictures and DreamWorks, cable channels such as CNBC and Bravo, as well as Peacock, a streaming platform.—
Melanie Hicken,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Plutonium will be converted into nuclear fuel The report highlighted that the department has allowed domestic nuclear energy companies to request up to 19 metric tons of plutonium from Cold War-era stockpiles.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Firms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firms. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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