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[hawrd, hohrd] / hɔrd, hoʊrd /




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The rightful owner has five years to claim the hoard under Belgian law - though the local prosecutor, who has launched an investigation, said it was not yet known who this might be.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

And the company has put some of its massive cash hoard to work, for the first time since Abel took the reins.

From MarketWatch Aug. 8, 2026

They’re going to probably want to hoard medication if they can.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The combined dividend obligations on MicroStrategy’s various preferred shares are substantial—a heavy burden for a company whose legacy software business generates relatively little revenue, leaving its massive Bitcoin hoard to dominate the balance sheet.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

“A lot of people want to hoard money. Not me,” says Aguirre, who started helping after she witnessed a twenty-five- year-old Honduran lose a leg trying to board a train.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Strategy, the software company that amassed one of the largest publicly disclosed bitcoin hoards, is down by more than 80% from its 52-week highs,

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

It also started buying up hoards of mortgage-backed securities to drive down borrowing costs for American households.

From MarketWatch Jan. 17, 2026

But not even Greenland’s valuable geographical position and hoards of critical minerals could compensate for damaging the trans-Atlantic alliance that remains fundamental to U.S. security.

From Barron's Jan. 8, 2026

There have been several coin "hoards" found over the years, usually deliberately buried and never recovered, typically during periods of turmoil or as a religious offering to the gods.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2025

They looked just like rabbit holes, but supposedly gnome holes all led to a large underground cavern where they kept hoards of food.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Undertaker Robert Bush hoarded dozens of bodies and half a tonne of human ashes.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2026

A compensation reset was probably inevitable after companies hoarded talent and dangled big raises a few years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

Over years of high inflation and currency controls, Argentines traded their battered pesos for dollars, which they often hoarded at home, in cash.

From Barron's Jan. 2, 2026

She and her brother, Neeley, like other Brooklyn kids, collected rags, paper, metal, rubber, and other junk and hoarded it in locked cellar bins or in boxes hidden under the bed.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

"I do post some hoarding videos but I've never had anything go this viral," she said.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Yes, as these companies’ statements uniformly note, those chips are being taken up by the A.I. data center rush, with Google and OpenAI leading the way in hoarding these processors.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

For example, a fund magnifying returns in bitcoin hoarding company Strategy is down 99% in just 19 months.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Within industries, as a supply-chain crisis unfolds, fear and self-protection instincts kick in, with hoarding and company-level stockpiling resulting in confusing demand signals that make it hard for upstream producers to respond.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

Typical targets were women on the edges of society who exhibited odd behaviors such as talking to animals, wandering the countryside at night, or hoarding insects.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman




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