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mora

American  
[mawr-uh, mohr-uh] / ˈmɔr ə, ˈmoʊr ə /

noun

Prosody.

PLURAL

morae, moras

  1. the unit of time equivalent to the ordinary or normal short sound or syllable.

mora British  
/ ˈmɔːrə /

noun

  1. prosody the quantity of a short syllable in verse represented by the breve (˘)

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Etymology

Origin of mora

1560–70; < Latin: delay, hence, space of time

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BofA Securities analyst Mariana Perez Mora rated Palantir shares Buy with a $255 price target, a nearly 40% increase from recent levels.

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BofA Securities analyst Mariana Perez Mora recently spent time with Palantir in Korea, taking the company to some of BofA’s clients in Asia.

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Palantir is simply the software “stack of choice to implement AI at scale,” according to Perez Mora.

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BofA’s Perez Mora is a bit of an outlier.

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Perez Mora’s price target is the highest on the Street, according to FactSet.

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