assets
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This planning includes the money you’re leaving to your cherished charitable causes: The more assets you can leave to beneficiaries as transfer-on-death or payable-on-death, the more of your estate will bypass probate.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Client outflows when Miller was lagging the market helped shrink his main fund from $21 billion in assets to less than $3 billion in a handful of years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
If the current trend holds, natural gas and related assets may reverse course and regain ground in the weeks ahead.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
A recent auction by specialist auction house Stanley Gibbons Baldwins saw over £1.5m in "Pokémon assets" change hands.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
To bankrupt any of these firms, all that was required was a very slight decline in the value of their assets.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing assets
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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