key
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With its exquisite controls—a knob to wind the clock, a key to wind the bell and a button to silence the alarm—it was a bewildering cross between jewelry and a grown-up appliance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Koen Hoorelbeke, investment and options strategist at Saxo Bank, also noted that a deeper reading of the VIX, a key measure of market volatility, shows clear signs of near-term risks.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Investors have grown concerned about the durability of the memory-cycle boom, but Morgan Stanley analyst Shawn Kim noted that dynamic random-access memory remains a key bottleneck to the artificial-intelligence build-out.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
El Niño's intensity is measured by how far sea surface temperatures rise above average in a key zone of the Pacific.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
A puzzle that might just hold the key to finding my mom.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Vocabulary lists containing key
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Music - Introductory
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