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Regulatory hurdles are complicating Earendil Labs’ plans for a Hong Kong initial public offering in which the Chinese artificial-intelligence biotechnology company is seeking a valuation of about $5 billion, people familiar with the matter say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The outbreak has weighed on foot traffic at chains like Chipotle and Yum Brands’ Taco Bell, the latter of which had been an initial focus for investigators.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

In its first quarterly earnings release since its $86-billion initial public offering in June, Elon Musk’s SpaceX grew its revenue, sharply cut its losses and beat Wall Street’s expectations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

At the initial deal announcement, EA's chief executive Andrew Wilson, who will retain his position, said the firm plans to "create transformative experiences to inspire generations to come".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The initial four-year appointment eventually extended to a stay of eighteen years in Padua, which Galileo later recalled as being the happiest years of his life.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The 39-year-old pilot, identified only by his initials, MSO, was arrested Wednesday at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta international airport shortly after arriving from Kuala Lumpur.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

It said the contracts involved people whom it identified only by their initials as A.Sh.,

From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026

"That's quite upsetting for me to hear. The last phone call I made to a ward manager, she might as well have just said that to me," she said, referring to the FOH initials.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

The international medical charity, widely known by its French initials, MSF, donated tents to serve as makeshift isolation wards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Wab was still bitter as she stood, brushing the grass off the back of her faded sweatpants, the initials of a university she’d never attended stamped across the seat.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

One of the invoices is initialed “SW” with “OK to pay” written by it.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022

He testified to purchasing a car for $3,500 and initialed a blank sales agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

The poems — some long, some short, sometimes with crossed-out words and corrections — were each dated and signed or initialed “C.B.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

At the very top, there are two giant joists initialed by workers from 1864.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2020

They must be the two men the librarian suspected would be back to see if their note on the bulletin board had been read and initialed.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

He reminded the jury of that evidence, including a memo the former president initialled authorising a pay cut for another executive for the exact amount of his perk, rent paid by the company.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022

Medinsky said Russia had made a second major de-escalatory step by agreeing to a possible meeting of the two countries’ presidents at the same moment that a peace agreement was initialled.

From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2022

Pages initialled by "DC" set out how the single market, due to start in 1992, would help business, workers, consumers, savers, holidaymakers.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2019

President Mohamed Mursi's government initialled an IMF deal in November but postponed ratification in December due to unrest ignited by a political row over the extent of Mursi's powers.

From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2013

“That is correct, Monsieur. My handkerchiefs are always initialled in the Russian characters. H is N in Russian.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Sometimes, I think back to initialing the bark, or nailing a plank of wood into the trunk, or breaking a branch by accident.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

Scott McDonell, the Dane County clerk, said the man is a poll worker, and the video shows him initialing ballots before they were handed out to voters.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

He was initialing ballots to be handed out to voters, a standard procedure mandated by state law, according to the county clerk.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

But he turned out to be a poll worker in Wisconsin conducting the standard procedure of initialing ballots for voters.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

I shall be glad to have it for initialing in not more than five minutes from now.”

From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

While Mollie and Grace closed their eyes, Betty dug idly in the sand, and Amy produced a handkerchief and a tiny embroidery frame and began initialling a corner.

From The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand by Hope, Laura Lee

The earlier taste still ruled in initialling and border decorations; but little flowers were added by degrees to the thorn-leaf pattern, and birds, sometimes angels, introduced.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

This is the Epeira’s trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation. 

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Miss Belmont stooped at the table, and when Mr. Berry entered he found her initialling the pay-sheet.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

Lawless had acted on an impulse in initialling her programme as he had done—a recurrence, even though slight, of the old midsummer madness.

From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills