underwrite
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"We are bringing the world's leading long-term capital providers together to independently underwrite AI infrastructure."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Pantheon already had exposure to over 80% of the underlying portfolio companies, allowing the firm to underwrite and price the transaction quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
NBMs allow investors to underwrite a larger portion of the company’s earnings than prior commodity cycles have allowed, he explained, and that marks a “structural change” for the company’s EPS profile.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
He added that investors who held positions in Microsoft thinking it was a free-cash-flow play now “are being asked to underwrite a capital-intensity cycle they didn’t sign up for.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
All that was left was the furniture that was absolutely necessary, the silver candelabra and table service, for the everyday utensils had been sold one by one to underwrite the costs of her education.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Democracy is the heart of our nation’s constitutional regime, and its health underwrites the Constitution’s own vitality.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Carvana underwrites its own loans, giving it an advantage to used car salesmen, reflected in its cars worth $500 to $1000 versus rivals after reconditioning, helped by its scale, Bellas said.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
“It sort of underwrites all the flash and fun and music and the uncertainty of this current moment,” Streep said, according to Reuters.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Energy underwrites the ability of U.S. industry to produce weapons and the capability of the U.S. military to use them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, And rots to nothing at the next great thaw; Man is a shop of rules: a well-truss'd pack Whose every parcel underwrites a law.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
She wouldn’t disclose who exactly underwrote her trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Insolvency Service, a branch of the Department of Business and Trade, ran the company and underwrote its losses after it collapsed in 2019.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
In late October, brokerage industry regulator Finra started conducting a “review of firm practices” at the multiple firms that underwrote small-cap foreign IPOs between 2023 and September of this year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
Perhaps Wilson’s closest confidant was Beverly Hills philanthropist Betty Freeman, who underwrote several of Wilson’s productions, including “Einstein on the Beach,” the opera he created with Philip Glass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Howard embraced the idea, underwrote the entire cost, and arranged to have Ridgewood’s orchards, fields, and dairy supply the hospital with food.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Insurers have been buying private credit underwritten by their new owners or issued by a company controlled by them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Issuing $1.25 billion in common stock through an underwritten public offering, another $2 billion in an at-the-market offering and $3.75 billion in convertible preferred stock interests could widen the pool of shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Alphabet said it plans to issue $30 billion in concurrent underwritten public offerings consisting of $15 billion of mandatory convertible preferred stock and $15 billion in its class A and class C common equity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
The US wants "a genuinely stable equilibrium" and wants to "preserve the conditions that have long underwritten peace and prosperity in this region", he added.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
This prophecy is underwritten by the tendency of the rich to do this already.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Experts told MarketWatch that the reasons are structural and decades in the making: The 2008 financial downturn led to tightened underwriting standards, making it more difficult for young people to qualify for mortgages.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
CoreWeave shows what that underwriting looks like when the hardware is reusable.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Instead, “this dividend is possible due to State Farm Mutual’s financial strength and a stronger than expected underwriting performance in 2025,” the company’s website said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Early in the pandemic, as mortgage rates plunged, lenders competed for business by easing underwriting standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Given to mystical preoccupations, this android proposed the group escape attempt, underwriting it ideologically with a pretentious fiction as to the sacredness of so-called android “life.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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