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Then regulators started talking about making insurers with CLOs hold a lot more money in reserve to protect against the risk of loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Certainly, he’s getting a lot of opportunity,” manager Dave Roberts said of Sheehan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"A lot of the other Pacific islands have got really good football teams and it makes those guys really happy," adds Deiye, who balances work as an urban planner in Nauru alongside his football work.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The stock market is a lot like a duck at the moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
SJ waits until everyone is settled before she pulls out of the parking lot.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
"When you have lots of particles that interact by quantum physics, you have this wave function that describes the state of the system," Tindall says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Kansara's son Esa, a student at Erdington, has already taken advantage of the offer and said lots of pupils will do the same.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
"It's a little more approximate than some of the other methods, but it's way cheaper, and we can run it much more directly on lots of harder problems," Stoudenmire says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Rucci searched for land along Imperial Valley’s towering power lines and cobbled together dusty lots in an abandoned industrial area next to a giant Homeland Security complex and a housing development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Basic math, lots about seasonal planting, some carpentry skills, things like that.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
From the switch the ball is lotted through to Gomez, who again has a poor final touch and the ball reaches James.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Bridges will be al lotted $700 million for repairs, while the remaining $600 million will be devoted to highway safety programs and miscellaneous road projects.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Thanksgiving-Day, too, and they had almost all of them "lotted" upon a New-England Thanksgiving-dinner with old friends, brothers, fathers, mothers, and grandparents.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 by Various
Fust she thought she was a bud, like lots o’ buds all ’round her, and she lotted on openin’ like they did.
From Story-Tell Lib by Slosson, Annie Trumbull
I had laid on a certain plan day and night, kep’ it in my mind and lotted on it.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta
We’ll do our best for you—but I ain’t lotting much on Latisan’s showing up again.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
He has been lotting upon seeing you, maam.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline
Vocabulary lists containing lot
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