As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
PERIPETY
peripeteia, peripetia, peripety
(noun) a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work); “a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
peripety (countable and uncountable, plural peripeties)
Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”)
(psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.
Source: Wiktionary
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WHOLE
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
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