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diligence

[dil-i-juhns] / ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns /


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Canada and Mexico, on Wednesday said Brookfield firmed its US$3.38-a-share proposal after four weeks of exclusive due diligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

"The committee will be doing their full due diligence to guarantee the wording used in this update will ensure all girls are granted the right to wear trousers as part of their school uniform."

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

The investment is subject to due diligence and final sign-off.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

As always, do your own due diligence and read all the fine print.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The sheer difficulty they had obtaining the information suggested that most investors were simply skipping this stage of their due diligence.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

One of the due diligences will include on the safety culture in Newcrest mines, the company said.

From Reuters Apr. 27, 2023

It was one of the line of diligences between Campeachy and Merida, and just arrived from the former place.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

In that year, and for some little time afterwards, coaches which carried the mails were called diligences or machines, and the coachmen were called machine-drivers.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce

The days when the diligences of Europe drew up before an old-time inn, with the sign of a pewter plate, an écu d'or, a holly branch, or a prancing white horse, have long since disappeared.

From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

We are now informed that the "mail-coaches and diligences have been found to answer so well that they will be generally adopted throughout the kingdom, and conveying of them in carts will be discontinued."

From The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time by Robert Charles Tombs




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