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CO-SIGNED CREDIT: Some lenders will approve you for a loan if someone with stronger credit co-signs the loan.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

NO CREDIT: Los Angeles RHP Kenley Jansen was announced as entering the game before the rain delay, but he never got to throw a pitch and was replaced by RHP Joe Blanton when play resumed.

From Washington Times • Aug. 21, 2016

CREDIT: Nehemiah Hawkins/Hawkins Electrical Guide Quantum dots under development for use in computer screens, 2012 First developed in the 1980s, quantum dots are incredibly tiny chemical shells built around a core of cadmium or lead.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2015

CREDIT: Thester11/Creative Commons Advertisement for leaded gasoline, 20th century In the 1920s, engineers at General Motors figured out that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline boosted its octane rating and allowed them to develop better engines.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2015

When near the Bench my fancy spied A faded form, with hasty stride,   Beneath Grief's burden stooping: Her name was CREDIT, and she said Her father, TRADE, was lately dead,   Her mother, COMMERCE, drooping.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 by Various