bureau
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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
The tech specialist said the bureau had discussed how to employ it with experts across the government and weighed whether to use commercial products such as those sold by OpenAI or Anthropic.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
The average repair time for a streetlight was one year, bureau officials said in February.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Many years ago, when I was a newbie newspaper reporter in the Boston Globe’s Washington bureau, one of my colleagues, Tom Oliphant, gave me a tip that I’ve cherished ever since.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
The two beds, two old rickety chairs, one table, the bureau missing a drawer—nothing.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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You can assist her in cutting up her credit cards and freezing her accounts at the major credit bureaus to make it difficult for her to take out more loans.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
Banks don’t typically report any credit information to the three credit-information bureaus — Experian, TransUnion and Equifax — until a user is 18, said Schulz.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
I look around at the room I’m lying in, with two bureaus, one of which has a picture of Ollie’s parents.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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John Lewis said the decision to close its in-store bureaux de change was due to falling demand and that it would move gift-wrapping services from a specialised area to its tills.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
She mastered the technique, and set up her own lacquerware workshop in Paris in 1910, producing screens, chairs, tables, bureaux, beds and dressing tables for some of the city’s richest clients.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2020
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
All the chiefs of bureaux had abandoned their posts; so, too, had the second head-clerks, save one, who immediately had himself put on the sick-list.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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