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There was another small sounder of wild hogs that had been rooting around the Mitchell’s farmland in recent months.
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Regulations requiring this sort of testing came about in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to make sure systematically important financial institutions maintained sounder footing in the face of future adverse conditions.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Boston: Image Image When much of downtown Boston burned a year after Chicago, property owners upgraded in a kind of virtuous cycle, erecting sounder and taller buildings and incentivizing their neighbors to do the same.
—Emily Badger, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
And Oman would not be the only country to benefit if its finances—and with them, its independent foreign policy—are put on a sounder footing.
—Nikita Lalwani, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2020
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Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Regulations requiring this sort of testing came about in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to make sure systematically important financial institutions maintained sounder footing in the face of future adverse conditions.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Boston: Image Image When much of downtown Boston burned a year after Chicago, property owners upgraded in a kind of virtuous cycle, erecting sounder and taller buildings and incentivizing their neighbors to do the same.
—Emily Badger, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
And Oman would not be the only country to benefit if its finances—and with them, its independent foreign policy—are put on a sounder footing.
—Nikita Lalwani, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2020
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“Sounder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sounder. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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sounder
noun
sound·er
ˈsau̇n-dər 
: one that sounds
especially
: a device for making soundings
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