underwrite
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However, they noted that Intel will likely continue to lose market share throughout next year, “making it tough to underwrite the longer-term story even with Foundry/packaging customer announcements.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Paris didn’t underwrite insurance for that Olympics because of a substantial increase in cost that followed Tokyo’s Covid-driven losses in 2020, according to industry trade reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Breaking this cycle demands action on two fronts," the report said, including "disrupting the financial flows that now underwrite an insurgency".
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
"We are bringing the world's leading long-term capital providers together to independently underwrite AI infrastructure."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Luckily, Simba Quix was still willing to underwrite my expenses, and I was able to continue playing tennis each afternoon, instead of being out working to pay my way through school.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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
It underwrites the sorts of elite cultural and educational institutions that Alexis de Tocqueville and others believed an egalitarian democracy would have difficulty nurturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Turkey normally underwrites a substantial portion of the Turkish Cypriot economy.
From The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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
She underwrote curatorial travel, including a 1997 trip to the Johannesburg Biennial, where a cohort of American curators, among them Nancy Spector and Thelma Golden, encountered a genuinely global art world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
For more than a decade, she covered consumer lending broadly, with a focus on how lenders underwrote loans and borrowers' ability to repay them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 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
A venerable bank underwrote the construction of the new meeting hall.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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The aging tankers operate outside global norms for insuring and regulating shipping, which means they are often insured and underwritten by Russia’s state-backed banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
He is so underwritten that it’s baffling why an army falls into line behind him given that he boasts no leadership or military experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The district letter alleged Carvalho’s undisclosed travel costs were underwritten by education companies that included Scholastic, for a 2022 trip to a board of directors meeting and another event in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Insurers have been buying private credit underwritten by their new owners or issued by a company controlled by them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Lee had already underwritten the funeral and sent a wash basket of groceries to the stricken families.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Chief Executive Alan Schnitzer pointed to strong underwriting performance across all of Travelers’ three segments, and said the company is well-positioned to finish the year strong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But the state would still have to factor in the price of the loan’s administrative and underwriting costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The underwriting business follows Plaid’s model of focusing on business-to-business relationships with a goal of improving consumers’ experience in the financial world, Perret said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“The related dislocation has to do with investors expecting the memory cycle to be over, while underwriting continued CPU growth through 2030.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Much of the rest went to underwriting the publication of books that few cared to own.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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