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charter

[chahr-ter] / ˈtʃɑr tər /




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PayPal’s December application for a state charter in Utah is pending.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

It has operated as a low-cost carrier for two decades, tracing its origins back to a charter company called Travel Service.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

In February, Anthropic removed a pledge from its safety charter to halt the development of its models if it failed to control their risks.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

And even within this low-economic group, the charter serves a higher percentage of homeless students.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

I go up and down the ramp, taking fish off the charter boats, then dropping them off at the top to be filleted for the tourists.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The businesses tied to outdoor leisure that are expected to benefit include golf courses, outdoor entertainment venues and providers of fishing charters.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

From a federal law perspective, if arbitration is legal in charters of new public companies, it is also legal in bylaws of existing public companies.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Starting in the early 1990s, charters gradually took hold in L.A., persuading parents they offered an attractive education alternative, and they now enroll about 1 in 5 public school students living within L.A.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

In “Offa: King of the Mercians,” Rory Naismith attempts to fill out the picture by relying on comments from rival kingdoms and the material evidence of coins, charters and structures.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

“There’s two village charters within walking distance—I checked the directory on the Net—and the Central Academy is just a short drive.”

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

"All service charge expenditure is audited by a firm of chartered certified accountants. A summary document detailing the residential expenditure is provided to each leaseholder by the managing agent."

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

The MS Ambition was previously chartered by the Scottish government to provide temporary housing for Ukrainian refugees on the River Clyde.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Instead, the chartered bank would be able to issue and manage cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Each traveled about 280 miles from Meridian; Rustici driving four-plus hours, while Deoudes flew on a chartered plane with half a dozen employees.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Instead, black churches set up “shopping centers” in their basements, and chartered buses to transport shoppers to Raleigh and Greensboro.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

When chartering the trust in 1949, Congress expressly excluded the White House from its purview.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Vessels still are likely to encounter “port congestion,” as well as chartering and scheduling disruptions, said Sean Pribyl, a maritime attorney at Holland & Knight.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

The coalition he belongs to is chartering buses to bring protesters from across California for Monday's game and is hoping to have "40- to 50,000 people" around the stadium, he said.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 2026

The team has to coordinate between two airline partners, chartering a Boeing 757 from Delta and a Boeing 737-800 from United, to handle travel parties of sometimes more than 100 in all.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2025

I am thinking of chartering a small brig and going in her to Port-au-Prince, and bringing my goods back from there.

From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty




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