gift
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“Why would that be the case that someone who got a gift card is more likely to falsify than someone who thinks I’m going to get $6,000 at the end of this?” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The family meeting is a gift: understanding, reduced burden, and alignment between what you believe and what you’ve built.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
It was as though the audience wanted desperately to give back to the Liebersons for their great gift to us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Usually, all that blue would have felt like a gift.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
And it was time that gift served Deadwood once again.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Kansas, Kentucky, Georgia and Montana have passed legislation in the past few years making it easier for donors to take legal action against nonprofit organizations, including colleges, that use restricted gifts outside the intended terms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Iraqis greeted them with gifts of drinks and food, continuing the tradition of offering refreshments to pilgrims.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Another $1.6 million came in via gifts, grants, contributions and membership fees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Individual justices can’t decide entire cases by themselves, but they are largely responsible for the work of deciding whether they should recuse themselves and when and how they should disclose massive financial gifts.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
They pulled out their birthday presents for Deirdre and placed them on the table with the other gifts.
From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene
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His contribution is set to go to an unnamed charity that is "dedicated to protecting First Amendment rights" and will be gifted in the name of Ina Steiner, according to the couple's lawyers.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Noting both the profound sadness and farcical tragedy ahead “if those who are gifted stay silent,” Lillian Smith in 1951 hoped for a better future.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Thousands of the jammers have already been gifted to Kyiv to help its armed forces maintain drone operations, according to London.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Days before, he had helped to write articles about security concerns involving a jet gifted to the U.S. by the Qatari government that was being used as Air Force One.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
With the convention drawing close, I worked with a speechwriter for the first time, a gifted young woman named Sarah Hurwitz who helped shape my ideas into a tight seventeen-minute speech.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Towering over all of them, arms stretched out as if gifting all these heroes to the world, is Chávez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
While individuals who are at least age 70 ½ can gift using QCDs, the gifting tools are typically used starting at age 73 to manage the tax consequences of mandatory withdrawals from IRAs.
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
Wales took advantage on 20 minutes, with a Gwen Crabb turnover gifting them a promising attacking platform, and while line-out ball was slightly overthrown, Tuipulotu took a clean catch and bulldozed her way through.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
And it was Duryodhana, the eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers, that came to his rescue by gifting him a kingdom of his own.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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