chip
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Companies are structuring chip and electricity purchases as future leases rather than owned assets, so the liabilities don’t show up on the balance sheet.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The chip maker’s $150 billion boost to its buyback authorization lighted a fire under its stock, tacking on $150 billion in market value Monday morning on a lousy day for tech stocks overall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
On Monday, AI chip giant Nvidia released a set of software safety tools for autonomous AI platforms - called agents - that it said could have prevented the Hugging Face hack.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Nvidia looks to insurers to backstop AI chip loans, spread compute financing risk.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
When I left the bodega, I had a plastic bag stuffed full of ice cream—mint chip and chocolate and cherry vanilla and caramel swirl and Heath bar crunch.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
At a punk show, a singer’s tooth was chipped when a crowd member bumped into the microphone, prompting a reminder to tone down the rowdiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“For savers with money sitting in savings accounts earning a median or average rate, some may be seeing their returns being chipped away,” Roske said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
He phoned people who chipped in to his Crowdfunder for the phone box project, as well as a few others to make up the numbers.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Queens trailed 7-2 in the second inning but slowly chipped away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
She set it back in its place in front of the flag and medals and bottle with Ernie’s chipped tooth and, yes, the piece of broken wheel.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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Vanderbilt trailed by 17 points midway through the third quarter when they started chipping away at a comeback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Morris appeared to have scored earlier in the half, getting loose on a breakaway before chipping the ball over Galaxy keeper JT Marcinkowski.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Taking the slower route of chipping away at your debt with your income, rather than your retirement savings, is the wiser option here.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Those gains are chipping away at Iran’s leverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Gillian and Shriya had been chipping away at me ever since Ethan and I had broken up the year before.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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