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disgorge

[dis-gawrj] / dɪsˈgɔrdʒ /


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The Securities and Exchange Commission requires owners of 10% or more of a public company’s stock to disgorge all profits realized within any six-month period.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Finally, the trucks would disgorge their citrus into a harvest wagon, the giant flatbed, which would be driven by semitruck to the processing center.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

Leigh doesn’t put his characters on the couch or disgorge the traumas that are etched in every word and gesture.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2024

Pere points over to the port, far beyond the rows of street vendors and swelling crowds filling the square, explaining that some cruises disgorge as many of 12,000 visitors every day onto the island.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2024

The people, forced to disgorge ever- increasing tribute to Tenochtitlan, were resentful and bitter.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Musk has also asked for billions of dollars made by the for-profit business to be disgorged, with the proceeds directed to OpenAI’s nonprofit arm.

From MarketWatch Apr. 28, 2026

In 1991 Will Self disgorged himself on to the British literary scene with “The Quantity Theory of Insanity,” a book of short stories seething with misanthropy and logorrhea.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

It wants him to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in disgorged trading profits and penalties.

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

So all throughout June, its numbers had dwindled, the residents of its 1,000 rooms disgorged.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2025

All morning long, automobiles and special trains disgorged thousands and thousands of passengers from every corner of the nation and the world; the assembly of foreign dignitaries alone equaled a normal day’s attendance.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

A world with no AP classes, basketball fundraisers or backpacks disgorging papers that I should have signed last week.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2025

At least four have sunk in the harbour, disgorging rubbish and fuel into waters that are part of a marine reserve.

From Reuters Nov. 24, 2023

The massive cargo carriers that arrive off the coast of Southern California, some bearing more than 15,000 metal shipping containers, often must wait at anchor for days before disgorging their cargo.

From Washington Post Jul. 27, 2021

On game days, Wrigleyville is usually thronged with people in Cubs gear, with each new arrival of the elevated train disgorging hundreds of new fans.

From Slate Oct. 2, 2020

Such made their way into the city, where transport ships seemed daily to arrive, disgorging regiments of soldiers who paraded through the streets and encamped upon the Common.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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