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collateral

[kuh-lat-er-uhl] / kəˈlæt ər əl /




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If AI proves to be a bubble – and bursts – neocloud firms "are definitely going to face collateral damage," said Bradley Tusk of Tusk Ventures.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The coins served as collateral the hackers used to borrow almost 20,000 ether, worth about $44.6 million at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A sharp selloff in equities through Friday has “created collateral damage in the precious-metals markets due to a liquidity-driven flight to safety,” said Dana Samuelson, president of American Gold Exchange.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Increasingly, small businesses like Brushstrokes + Beverages — with little capital to use as collateral against a traditional loan — are turning to nonbank finance companies for merchant cash advances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

So long as the underlying bonds remained outstanding, both buyer and seller of credit default swaps were obliged to post collateral, in response to their price movements.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"We hold collaterals, which will help us realize value even if Evergrande is liquidated," said a Class C creditor, who expected a better recovery rate for his debt than the bondholders.

From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2023

Fortunately, our bodies are well protected against this kind of loss and can quickly grow new vessels, called collaterals, that carry blood around the bypass to the starving tissues beyond.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016

For the most part, the parents, grandparents, and collaterals are persons strongly preoccupied with abstractions of a scientific, literary, or artistic nature, and limited in genuine interest in people.”

From Slate ● May 1, 2013

The audience’s own knee ligaments screamed in sympathy — medial collaterals fraying like hemp rope.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2012

The axon n runs toward the center, giving off in its course several collaterals.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh


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