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as in stake
a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something
all of the workers at the food cooperative have an interest in it
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as in welfare
the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success
make no mistake: she's determined to act in her own interest in this business deal
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as in firm
a commercial or industrial activity or organization
a multinational corporation with interests on every continent
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as in special interest
a group of people with a common identifying interest that they seek to protect and promote
the contention that the nation's financial interests have too much power
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as in to intrigue
to hold the attention of
the book didn't interest me, so I ended up watching the parade of people on the sidewalk
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Recent Examples of interest
Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
Growing Your Own Flowers And Foraging Boutique flower farms have popped up everywhere in recent years, highlighting a strong interest in buying locally.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2025
Alden Abbott, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The wordsmithing and the ideas that lay behind a joke have always interested me.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Rich Spirit was responsible for taking over the financial interests on the Oscar nominated The Apprentice from Kinematics.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
Growing Your Own Flowers And Foraging Boutique flower farms have popped up everywhere in recent years, highlighting a strong interest in buying locally.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
The 6th Circuit Decision’s Implications The 6th Circuit decision has 4 major economic and legal policy implications that may well interest the Trump Administration.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The wordsmithing and the ideas that lay behind a joke have always interested me.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interest
Noun
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But the agency’s experience reveals what remains at stake—the collective capacity of the American government to pursue the common good.—
Atul Gawande,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
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At stake are funds potentially worth trillions of dollars.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2025
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Police said deputies were dispatched to the home on Jan. 28 at around 4 p.m. for a welfare check on a woman, later identified as the mother of the children but not named.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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In November, animal welfare groups filed federal lawsuits against the plan in Oregon and Washington calling the strategy inhumane and alleging violations of federal laws.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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According to Thami Malusi, a senior associate at Richard Spoor Incorporated Attorneys (RSI), the law firm representing the plaintiffs, the case could finally go to trial this year.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN,
25 Jan. 2025
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Add another $2 million to pay the engineering firm Miami-Dade hired to investigate the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo complex, which killed 98 people.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
25 Jan. 2025
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Despite being passed in the Senate, the act was ultimately blocked by special interest groups and concerns over public disclosure of the truth regarding UAP.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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Lawyers have said that an issue like detaching and creating a new district presents a special interest to the public, which mandates a more open and transparent process with the public.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Jan. 2025
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What to Know Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid formed as part of a parent body approximately 4.5 billion years ago, has long intrigued researchers due to its potential to harbor traces of water and organic molecules.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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This is reason enough to see this film or at least to be intrigued by it.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Only his former Yankees teammates, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, received a higher share of the vote.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Critics argue PBMs have historically kept an excessive share of rebate savings for themselves.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Companies that import goods pay what is essentially a tax, driving up costs.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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California law prohibits price gouging after an emergency has been declared, meaning that individuals and businesses cannot increase the price of goods and services such as gas or rentals by more than 10% from before the emergency was declared.—
JANIE HAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Teenagers’ distrust of Big Tech echo a growing dissatisfaction with major tech companies in the United States.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN,
30 Jan. 2025
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Other companies reporting include Exxon Mobil , Chevron , AbbVie , Colgate-Palmolive , Booz Allen , Charter Communications , LyondellBasell , and Novartis.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Interest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interest. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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