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TD Cowen’s Craig Hutchison says the U.S. government will be granted a participation interest which, once vested, will entitle it to receive 20% of any cash distributions over $17.5 billion made by Westinghouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Disruption caused by things like strikes by airport or air traffic control staff, bad weather or other "extraordinary circumstances" does not entitle you to extra compensation.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2024

No. The terms of the award entitle Musk to exercise them whenever he wants to, though he’s barred from selling any of those shares for the next five years.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Does Edward’s transformation reassert — or make a mockery of — the increasingly held notion that only authentically lived experience can entitle an artist to tell a particular story?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2024

“Does your battle for liberty entitle you to search through the private linens of a lady?”

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson