gift
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Inside was a personal check for $500,000, a gift to the company from Degorce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Recent requests have included Mexican peso designs, medallions and a glittery wand for a Sweet 16 gift.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Moylan says they look exactly like their regular gift vouchers: "We wouldn't know the difference."
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Dalibor had received a gift from two young siblings, eight-year-old Claire and Peter, six, from Mold, Flintshire, and had hoped to track them down but only had limited information on them.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He plans to document his adventures, then give it to his parents as an anniversary gift.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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He also tightened the rules so that serving ministers had to consider "the need to maintain the public's confidence in the standard of propriety" when accepting gifts.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Chiu is fond of the concierge service for booking restaurant reservations, selecting gifts and obtaining tickets to events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
For much of history, presidents adhered to them, including by seeking approval from Congress before accepting gifts from foreign states and foreign leaders.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
‘Yes, his contributions to entertainment will be long remembered and enjoyed, but his gifts to children will likely have no end,’ writes an L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Letters, gifts, or telegrams arrived almost every day.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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The line that set off the frenzy, in its entirety, is: “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ms. Southon is gifted at extracting maximum value from minimal evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.”
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Cage plays Roy, a gifted con artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose tics, phobias and elaborate rituals have turned his immaculate home into a fortress against the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“So that was what Mr. Benedict meant when he said you were more gifted than anyone realized. I thought he was just referring to your incredible stubbornness!”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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One option is gifting directly to an educational institution they attend.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Once their spring blooms are complete, Aggrey meticulously collects the seed pods from the clarkias, gilias and phacelias, processes the seeds and packages them for gifting before the subsequent spring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
But he said he was passionate about his opposition to this "gifting culture", adding: "We've been doing this for 15 years and we've never gifted anything to anyone really."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Warren Buffett did not donate to the Gates Foundation this year, ending a two-decade run of gifting Berkshire Hathaway shares to the philanthropy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
I don’t think Ma could have spent five minutes in this place without running to her car and gifting it some good, high-quality bookends.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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