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Part of the issue, he explains, is that initial assumptions around attachment theory have evolved since it was first developed.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

China memory-chip maker ChangXin Technology Group surged more than five times from its initial public offering price in a blockbuster debut in Shanghai.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

The initial search focused on video footage that showed a masked person wearing gloves and a backpack appearing to tamper with a camera at her front door the morning she disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

The breathtaking surge came after the Anhui-based company had raised $9.8 billion in a blockbuster initial public offering, Bloomberg News reported, making it China's biggest mainland tech share sale.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

She noticed they were still sinking, but it was slower than their initial descent.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

He knew, though, that Cantor Fitzgerald executives preferred to use initials rather than full names in their emails.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The two had written messages on their caps in silver ink: On Alfonzo’s, “EyP, RIP,” the initials of his stepmother Patricia and his younger sister Eliana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 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

As early as 1753, someone known only by his initials, C.M., had proposed in the Scots Magazine that electricity could be used to send messages down a wire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Insiders joked that its initials stood for “No Such Agency.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

The wallet, initialed G.H., contained a New York Times article describing plans for the offensive in which he ultimately died.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

During his summation, Steinglass pointed to a document that had been initialed by Trump and called it “explicit” proof of his knowing that his executives were tinkering with expenses to reduce their tax liabilities.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

A small auction house in Massachusetts offered it for sale as a “an unidentified gentleman, initialed I.L., and dated 1652,” with an estimate of $200 to $300.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

Jesse had been so careful not to lose his recess time that even now he chewed his bologna sandwich with his lips tight shut and his eyes on the initialed heart.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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

Agreements would also be initialled with Georgia and Moldova.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2013

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

His correspondence shows him to have been a warm-hearted friend; and he had the same devout practice of initialing his manuscripts as his brother.

From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)

He was very preoccupied, pinning up cheques and initialling some important customer's paying-in book.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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

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

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