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transfer

[trans-fur, trans-fer, trans-fer] / trænsˈfɜr, ˈtræns fər, ˈtræns fər /




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In exchange, the developer agreed to transfer to the National Park Service a similarly valued piece of property located elsewhere in California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

In exchange, Pori agreed to transfer to the National Park Service a similarly valued piece of property located elsewhere in California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"That allows us then to move quite quickly in what is a really competitive transfer market."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“This worry shouldn’t transfer to the general public right now, mainly because there is nothing for you to do and your risk is so low.”

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The transfer of Myers and McMillian from the county jail to death row took place on August 1, 1987, less than a month before the scheduled execution of Wayne Ritter.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Gulf producers have increasingly relied on the U.S.-protected tanker movements, ship-to-ship transfers outside Hormuz and pipelines that bypass the strait entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Where the ship couldn't sail sections of the river, we arranged coach transfers, hotel stays and adjusted travel arrangements to minimise transfer times so customers could still visit destinations, including Budapest, Vienna and Bratislava.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The banks that thrive will be the ones that earn deposits in a world where every dollar is awake, and the regulators who succeed will be those who prepare to oversee machine-speed money transfers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the time of the visit, the manager was overseeing multiple transfers from other locations including 51 residents leaving another building “due to flooding.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

For some reason, instead of looking for transfers, we were going to sit in a bus.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

The Sheriff’s Department typically houses mentally ill prisoners at the Twin Towers, but Magaña’s family claims he was not transferred to a specialized unit within the jail that deals with more challenging cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

That’s when a highly rated passer named Deuce Adams transferred to Vandegrift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The letter comes as the South Korean government's relationship with Ukraine has been strained, after President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that two captured North Korean soldiers had been transferred to Seoul's custody.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

After arriving at the airport in Kenya's capital, he was transferred by a relative to a hospital in the city where he died, and was buried on Tuesday in line with health safety guidelines.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Lilya’s and Katya’s female mechanics transferred with them.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Meeting minutes from March show the Santa Monica City Council approved transferring the lease for the city-owned property to the Santamonican Club LLC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The new measurement approach could also contribute to new quantum communication protocols, methods for transferring multi-photon quantum entangled states, and new forms of measurement-based quantum computing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

Like an AI agent taking and transferring data when it should not have, OpenAI said.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Colleges could also earmark up to $22.5 million to pay athletes from a “retention pool”—supposedly to prevent them from transferring to other schools—and another $5 million on women’s and Olympic sport athletes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Johnny’s brother—we ended up transferring him from Doolittle because of the way kids are—kids can be very cruel!

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones




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