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Think of it as a “Roth IRA on steroids”: The ultrawealthy are pouring billions of dollars into private-placement life insurance, a customizable insurance contract that allows unlimited investments to grow tax-free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Defensive lineman Kobie Turner, a team captain, is in a contract year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Enter private-placement life insurance, a customizable insurance contract that allows unlimited investments to grow tax-free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Briton had no need to rush his decision to commit to McLaren because his existing contract still had more than a year to run.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

A contract would make it harder for them to do that, and easier for him to sell to one dealer what he had bought from another—and thus to shop around for prices.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

But if it happens, it also could have ramifications for other players’ playing time and, possibly, future contracts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Anthropic said the government’s actions had contributed to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in canceled, truncated or stalled contracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

But a week later, Gazprom Arena denied it would host the shows, saying it had "not signed any contracts to lease the stadium for the event".

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

The pre-IPO perpetual contracts translate directly to Anthropic’s market capitalization via a $1.00 point equals $100 billion valuation index model.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Ohmae’s company even has contracts with more than seventy thousand housewives, some of them specialists in medical or legal terminologies, to do data-entry work at home.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Their environmental niches expanded as landscapes became more modified, but contracted as human presence increased.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

At the time, Stewart told Complex that Monroe contracted meningitis while filming in Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The production company he contracted parted ways with Miss USA after a pay dispute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"The hospital said she could have contracted it 20 or 30 years before," said her younger sister Helen.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Arachne contracted her abdomen and blindly ripped away the weaving.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Samuel Monroe Jr., star of ‘Menace II Society,’ and other films from the 1990s, is on life support after contracting meningitis in Las Vegas while filming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

A Frankfurt Airport worker has died of malaria after a rare outbreak led to six employees contracting the serious infection spread by mosquitoes.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

If you have worked in the world of defense budgeting, spending or contracting, we’d like to hear from you.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

New-home prices in China have been contracting for three years.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Among much else, Einstein’s general theory of relativity suggested that the universe must be either expanding or contracting.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson