collateral
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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
It leaves audiences asking if these climbers who die for their all-consuming passions are showing their kids what it means to really live, or turning their children into the collateral damage of their adult dreams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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
JetBlue said it faced no such collateral requirements at the end of June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Because everyone and everything just goes back to normal, even though it obviously wasn’t normal. We knew the collateral for the CDOs had collapsed. And yet everything went on, as if nothing had changed.”
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
In their course through the granule layer they give off a number of branching collaterals, some turning back and passing between the cells of Purkinje into the molecular layer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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