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 get somewhere,” said Grover, “a man has to understand his assets and his liabilities. You, for instance, prefer not to lose this money.”
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Vocabulary lists containing assets
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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