hoard
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Record hoard of Roman coins unearthed in Germany.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
He actually uses his reservations, but you can imagine people using agents to hoard tables, or the human user not realizing the agent booked a table and the restaurant being stuck with a no-show.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Banks were encouraged to hoard these reserves both by black-letter liquidity regulations and by strenuous winking and nodding by their supervisors at the Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Since she’s afraid to venture outside, she hoards these memories to live vicariously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
Antony Lee from the Treasure Trove Unit said coin hoards containing a mix of both English and Scottish coins were not unusual.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
‘Keep your hoards and your secrets hidden in the Accursed Years! Speed only we ask. Let us pass, and then come! I summon you to the Stone of Erech!’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Unified has enough money hoarded in reserves to reach a desired agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
In times of uncertainty, people have previously hoarded savings.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
He once hoarded approximately 64,000 of them—the equivalent of spending about $6,400 on burrito bowls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 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
Grandma Edem had made good money from her clam picking and trading and had left gold jewelry for all her children, but it was being hoarded by Ma’s older sister and her greedy husband.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
In fact, he was quietly hoarding tons of them—they were just in a part of the draft where no one was paying attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The government has capped stocks held by traders and wholesalers at 400 tonnes for three months to curb hoarding.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Price discovery is critical, else you get hoarding, shortages and bare shelves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
While you don’t have any control over point devaluation, you can protect yourself by spending your points and not hoarding them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Someone must have been hoarding sugar just in case there was a direct hit on the airfield and everybody needed cheering up.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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