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That puts it squarely in the club of “dividend aristocrats,” closely followed stocks that have paid and raised their dividends for 25 straight years.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

In a study published in the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and his collaborators describe a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil that falls squarely within this missing interval.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

The court has never squarely addressed this question.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Ken Lerer, whose venture-capital fund Lerer Hippeau was an early investor in BuzzFeed and who served as the company’s board chairman until 2019, placed the blame more squarely on how the company was managed.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

He hesitated a few moments and then looked squarely at Hazel.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams