underwrite
Example Sentences
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Will public investors really be ready to underwrite such expensive endeavors?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
Wells Fargo Chief Financial Officer Michael Santomassimo told analysts in November that “we underwrite every one” of the roughly 2,800 or 3,000 loans in the portfolio financing private-credit firms lending to middle-market companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
“How in good conscience can managers underwrite new loans at 8% or 9% when their stocks yield 13%?” asks Klymochko.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
As public funding for higher education has eroded, universities have increasingly turned to wealthy donors to underwrite major projects and supplement budgets by endowing professorships and research centers.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
It is not books as physical objects that are required to underwrite the fact; it is sources that don’t alter and change from one day to the next, of which books remain the clearest manifestation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing underwrite
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