interest
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The airline has previously conveyed its interest in finding an additional lender that would approve the applicants that JPMorgan rejects, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Meanwhile debt interest for the month was the highest August figure since monthly records began in 1997.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Banks stand to earn less on some bread-and-butter activities, such as making longer-term loans to customers, relative to the interest they pay out to clients on short-term deposits.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Concerns over inflation eating away at returns has sent the interest rates on bonds - known as yields - higher in recent months.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
But when he visited the house with Marlie and Strong Jonn, he often joked with Rowan, and took an interest in what he was doing, and made excuses for his mistakes.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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After consulting an independent adviser, Ingenia said its board determined that the revised proposal still substantially undervalued the company and wasn’t in the best interests of its shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The labels have disputed the claims and argue that these deals advance the interests of artists and songwriters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
"We want an industry run in the interests of people and the environment, with its income reinvested in the system rather than extracted from it."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Instead, they had shown, over and over again, that they were going to put their own interests ahead of the people who trusted them.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
The manner in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to the larger cause.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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"I don't think I'm worried about it going off from where I am, but I'm just interested to hear how the story ends."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
In an interview, Bonta said the states weren’t interested in potential remedies or asset spinoffs to avoid a nasty courtroom brawl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The next thing I think you start seeing is the court becoming interested in, despite its professed adherence to textualism, reading these statutes with an eyebrow raised.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“It’s the ‘Hey, look at what I made, look at what I’m interested in, and let’s share that.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Clocks were not so much interested in now but later, in the future.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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The record as a whole confirms that Ms. Cyrus’s chaotic throw-everything-at-the-wall approach is far more interesting than when she tries for a succinct exploration of a single genre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
After he said "no one cares" about the discipline in May this year, Kotsoni says she "thinks it's interesting" that it's now being forged as a clear trend for next year.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
"Some of the dark arts of defending, he'll bring some interesting things for the players to think about."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
But if you’re willing to hold and rotate Vance’s recent statements in your mind, you’ll find something uncharacteristically interesting.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Nowadays, of course, people are accustomed to paintings of sheep that look nothing like actual sheep, but simply content themselves with being paintings, full of color and lines and interesting shapes.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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