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
Snap and Amazon, in addition to a wave of smaller tech firms, have all released smart glasses for these purposes.
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Investing in individual stocks, particularly in high-growth firms like Nebius, carries inherent volatility.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
That kind of philanthropy is unusual in an age when many billionaires flaunt their wealth with mega-yachts and Wall Street firms work to extract profits from their investments.
—David Gelles, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Technology firms — and artificial intelligence companies such as Broadcom and Nvidia, in particular — led the rise.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Investing in individual stocks, particularly in high-growth firms like Nebius, carries inherent volatility.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
That kind of philanthropy is unusual in an age when many billionaires flaunt their wealth with mega-yachts and Wall Street firms work to extract profits from their investments.
—David Gelles, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Technology firms — and artificial intelligence companies such as Broadcom and Nvidia, in particular — led the rise.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firms
companies
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Federal prosecutors charged a UK teenager with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and other crimes in connection with the network intrusions of 47 US companies that generated more than $115 million in ransomware payments over a three-year span.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
19 Sep. 2025
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Tirias Research has long forecasted the need for a variety of AI inference accelerators from companies like AMD, Intel, Nvidia and anyone else developing AI semiconductor solutions.—
Jim McGregor,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Firms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firms. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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