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insure

[in-shoor, -shur] / ɪnˈʃʊər, -ˈʃɜr /


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At the same time, more than 90 pages of the prospectus details risks, including the possibility of incidents too big to insure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

While insurance companies insure rental agencies against vehicle damage, they do not cover theft, according to Luguana of Bandago Van Rentals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara furthered the plan’s growth when he required it to raise the policy limit on homes to $3 million and to insure condominium developments valued at $100 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Long-term agreements are one way that the chip makers can prolong or insure their earnings an margins, by tying up clients into deals that last years.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

One day he brought news that Sissy had given birth to another child which he had been unable to insure since it had lived but two hours.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Michigan-based Hagerty Insurance, which specializes in insuring classic and enthusiast vehicles, has seen the number of 2000s Honda Civics and Toyota Corollas it insures more than double in the past three years alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures home loans for lenders.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025

So does the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, which insures anyone with a U.S. bank account.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

State Farm General, which had about a 20% share of the homeowners insurance market in 2023, insures about 1 million homeowners in the state and has 1.8 million other policies in force.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

The synthetic nature of the orchestra forestalls the extravagances of so-called individuality and insures, generally speaking, a truthful interpretation.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann

The former employees said the companies applied the same approach to both Medicaid and privately insured patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

While he declined to reveal to CNN how much the diamond was insured for, he noted that extensive academic study into the properties of the diamond had taken place to make it uniquely identifiable.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Marchesi Antinori chief executive Renzo Cottarella said the stolen bottles weren't insured.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"Those without experience, who are generally not insured, can try them out on the lake which is likely to cause an accident," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Some people inherit houses; others paintings or highly insured violin bows.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The reason is that the cost of insuring his home and rentals is a few thousand dollars a year, much lower than the potential out-of-pocket cost he would face if he had to rebuild them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

It is entirely the choice of an individual as to whether it is worth insuring belongings while off at university or college.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The cost of insuring against its loans and bonds defaulting hit a multiyear high this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20 billion to $30 billion a year by 2030, reinsurer Swiss Re forecast in a report this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The data from the mortgage servicers was worse every month—the loans underlying the bonds were going bad at faster rates—and yet the price of insuring those loans, they said, was falling.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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