underwrite
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"We are bringing the world's leading long-term capital providers together to independently underwrite AI infrastructure."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The Permian is unique in that producers typically underwrite drilling there based on oil prices, and not the gas that they unearth in the process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“But we also underwrite and fund our own loans before transferring them for servicing. A big retail bank only has one rate sheet on the inside.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
SYDNEY—Australia plans to require data centers to underwrite their electricity and water supplies, as the government seeks to govern the growing artificial-intelligence industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
A businessman learns the boy’s story and promises to underwrite part of the cost of his college education.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Democracy is the heart of our nation’s constitutional regime, and its health underwrites the Constitution’s own vitality.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Carvana underwrites its own loans, giving it an advantage to used car salesmen, reflected in its cars worth $500 to $1000 versus rivals after reconditioning, helped by its scale, Bellas said.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
“It sort of underwrites all the flash and fun and music and the uncertainty of this current moment,” Streep said, according to Reuters.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Energy underwrites the ability of U.S. industry to produce weapons and the capability of the U.S. military to use them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
A railway obtains the services of a single banking house which acts as its fiscal agent, underwrites its securities, receives its deposits, and has a representative on the railway's board of directors.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
“We underwrote a country with a demonstrated ability to manage through it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Insolvency Service, a branch of the Department of Business and Trade, ran the company and underwrote its losses after it collapsed in 2019.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
In late October, brokerage industry regulator Finra started conducting a “review of firm practices” at the multiple firms that underwrote small-cap foreign IPOs between 2023 and September of this year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
And it represents a sobering turnabout for a foundation so prolific at Columbia that it underwrote both the Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion and the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
Howard embraced the idea, underwrote the entire cost, and arranged to have Ridgewood’s orchards, fields, and dairy supply the hospital with food.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
A few tracks, such as “Time” and “Friends” in the middle of the album, are slightly underwritten, and when they end you might remember the bassline or drum tone more than the melody.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Insurers have been buying private credit underwritten by their new owners or issued by a company controlled by them.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The character is underwritten but Jolie picks up much of the slack through her silently shattered expression.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The underwritten offerings are being led by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, with Goldman acting as the private placement agent on the Berkshire transaction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Lee had already underwritten the funeral and sent a wash basket of groceries to the stricken families.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
FHA staff routinely monitor loan performance to ensure stability and regularly take action against lenders with poor underwriting quality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
CoreWeave shows what that underwriting looks like when the hardware is reusable.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Instead, “this dividend is possible due to State Farm Mutual’s financial strength and a stronger than expected underwriting performance in 2025,” the company’s website said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
State Farm is the only major auto insurer to announce a dividend payout, citing its financial strength and a stronger-than-expected underwriting performance in 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Given to mystical preoccupations, this android proposed the group escape attempt, underwriting it ideologically with a pretentious fiction as to the sacredness of so-called android “life.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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