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bureau

[byoor-oh] / ˈbjʊər oʊ /




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“If you spot any errors, you’ll want to dispute them with the credit bureau and get them corrected first.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

China’s official statistics bureau is scheduled to release second-quarter GDP data on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The FBI director’s tribute to Graham included one operational line that had nothing to do with mourning: He wrote that the bureau was “assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available.”

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

The average repair time for a streetlight was one year, bureau officials said in February.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

Tom White had witnessed many of his colleagues at the bureau cross that line.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

He has held numerous roles at the network over a four decade run, anchoring the “CBS Evening News,” co-hosting the division’s weekday and Saturday morning shows, covering business and reporting from overseas bureaus.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

VantageScore is a joint venture of credit bureaus Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian.

From Barron's Apr. 29, 2026

In 2022, Fannie Mae instituted a “positive rent” initiative for landlords to report on-time rent payments—but not late or missed payments—to credit bureaus.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 26, 2026

If on-time utility payments are reported to the credit bureaus, Bandebo said they can also bolster a score.

From MarketWatch Apr. 25, 2026

The five bureaus were painted with wavy stripes of pale and paler lavender.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.

From Barron's Apr. 26, 2026

"Incidentally, we have also studied enemy weapons quite well, which were taken as trophies and dismantled to the last screw at our military construction bureaux," Medvedev added.

From Reuters Feb. 25, 2023

It's recently been adding international bureaux, including a UK headquarters in Scotland.

From BBC Feb. 10, 2017

And for the first time in at least three years, British holidaymakers have found that a pound buys less than a euro at some bureaux de change.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2016

Not only youths, but grown-up men are enthusiastic about Herwegh's poetry, as it does not find its echo alone in the students' drinking parties, but also in official bureaux and counting-houses.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von




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