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Draper's initial comeback earlier this season was derailed by tendinitis in his knee and the three-time ATP Tour winner had not played for more than two months before his return at Eastbourne in June.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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

An initial public offering of shares by a China-affiliated offshore entity “is a simple way to circumvent the capital controls,” said Edmund Leow, a senior partner in Singapore at law firm Dentons Rodyk.

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

“Look, Omi, we made you an O! For your initial, and also a literal Circle of Friendship! Which was Mila’s idea,” she added, catching my eye.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

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

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

According to the lawsuit, Matthew Kittle dropped off his 23-month-old son, referred to by the initials C.K., at the Bay Club’s El Segundo Clubhouse around 8:30 a.m. on March 17, 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In court, the handler was referred to as "EL Money", which is how he was saved in Lavrynovych's phone, but on the Telegram messaging app he simply used the initials "EL".

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026

Everybody at school called A.J. by his initials or just “Aje.”

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

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

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

Leaders of both teams initialed their copies and handed them to their Qatari hosts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2019

Dick dropped the binoculars into a leather case, a luxurious receptacle initialed H.W.C.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

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

He was initialing ballots to be handed out to voters, a standard procedure mandated by state law, said Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Each man had a sole-leather trunk on his shoulder, a trunk so new that the initialing "G. V. S." was still wet.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth

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

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

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

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

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