assets
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If you expect to live a long time, a lifetime annuity can provide valuable protection against outliving your assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Wealth is measured as a household’s assets, like stocks and home equity, minus their liabilities, like mortgages and credit-card debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In a brief statement late Tuesday, prosecutors said they had sent "a letter concerning the freezing of all assets" of Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya and her husband Ilyas Kaya to "all the relevant institutions".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Companies are structuring chip and electricity purchases as future leases rather than owned assets, so the liabilities don’t show up on the balance sheet.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
This will be accomplished by concentrating on my best assets and giving the country what it needs rather than what it wants.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Vocabulary lists containing assets
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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