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The bank booked credit impairments of $150 million, up from $119 million in the year-earlier period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive for people wanting to secure loans, mortgages and credit cards, but can lead to better returns on savings.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
At the same time, CDS spreads have been widening, suggesting credit investors are becoming less comfortable with that shift.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Banks have to pay Apple a fee of about 0.15% of the purchase price when one of their credit cards is used in Apple Pay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“It is a credit to your navigational skills that we did not blow off course.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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“Solstice,” where he shares writing credits with Patti Smith, possesses the same kind of metaphysical shimmer that’s often intrinsic to a Patti Smith composition.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
The star, whose real name was Vincent Belorgey, enjoyed a slow-burning cult hit with his 2010 track Nightcall, which soundtracked the opening credits to the stylish neo-noir crime movie Drive, starring Ryan Gosling.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
It said it was too early to know how many people keep using the wallet after the credits run out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Baker traveled with the San Francisco Giants’ contingent to celebrate Kent, who credits Baker with helping transform him into the National League MVP, All-Star and eventually a Hall of Famer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
By the time the final credits rolled on the old movie, we were more than ready for bed.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Yet on Feb. 1, 2020, his diary records a meeting with a dozen prominent virologists in which only two credited this “natural origins” theory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ahmed hailed their "amazing" response and offered his thanks to Lowe, who he credited with preventing further deaths.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
President Claudia Sheinbaum has credited her administration’s efforts with reducing homicides by almost 50% in less than two years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
In 1922, Georgia’s governor credited Felton with having “all the qualities of heart and head that equip one for broad and constructive statesmanship.”
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Agriculture Department itself has credited these importations with appreciably reducing the frequency and destructiveness of gypsy moth outbreaks.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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England and Manchester City both offered their condolences to the Keegan family, with the latter crediting their former manager with establishing them as a Premier League club.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
While crediting Spahn with helping the CDU return to power, the chancellor added: "Credibility is the most valuable asset in politics."
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
The 2nd Circuit relied on the long-familiar Mathews test here, crediting the government’s concerns about flight risks, but ultimately ruling in favor of requiring a bond hearing given the length of Black’s and G.M.’s detentions.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026
Others focused on the brass and bronze, the enormous American flags and the presidential seal, carved into a stone wall, and crediting Donald J. Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
The Assyrians have left us the smallest possible grounds for crediting them with its possession.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
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