assets
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“All of a sudden you might find out that the assets you thought existed, the marital pot that you thought was of one value, might be substantially less.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
War has handed Tehran what it sees as a new weapon - Azizi described this highly strategic strait Iran has managed to weaponise during this conflict as "one of our assets to face the enemy".
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
U.S. households have a total of $195 trillion in assets, consisting of homes, stocks, bonds and other assets.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
Traders read Islamabad’s intervention as de-escalatory and priced risk assets accordingly.
From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026
The company made nothing and sold nothing: It existed to hold assets and provide a reference for anyone who became skeptical of Holmes’s promissory notes.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing assets
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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