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Mitsubishi has already committed $600 million as part of its initial joint-venture equity investment, and funding also includes a $230 million deposit from Wheaton Precious Metals for precious-metals supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

As a result, the initial dietary assessments may have underestimated participants' actual consumption during the study period.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Speaking ahead of the series' season five premiere in London, Brydon said despite his initial hesitation, he enjoyed playing a heightened version of himself.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

In its first quarterly earnings release since its $86-billion initial public offering, SpaceX in August reported that it grew its revenue and sharply cut its losses while beating Wall Street estimates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Not even the first initial came to mind.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The room still features a personalized touch: an island bearing Foreman’s initials, “G.F.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Ocasio-Cortez, widely known by her initials AOC, burst onto the national political scene with an upset congressional victory in 2018 and rapidly became a leading voice of the Democratic Party's left wing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The United Arab Emirates reported there was no local transmission when the patient, known by his initials M.S., was there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The 34-year-old man asked to be identified by his initials, A.S., over concerns about his immigration case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Someone arranged blue bits into squiggly initials: JC + CC.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

The wallet, initialed G.H., contained a New York Times article describing plans for the offensive in which he ultimately died.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

One of the invoices is initialed “SW” with “OK to pay” written by it.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022

He testified to purchasing a car for $3,500 and initialed a blank sales agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

A small auction house in Massachusetts offered it for sale as a “an unidentified gentleman, initialed I.L., and dated 1652,” with an estimate of $200 to $300.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

I turned back to the wires, counted them, corrected the inventory slip, initialed it, and moved down to the next shelf.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

The US State Department said technical teams had initialled the draft text on Wednesday, ahead of a formal signing ceremony next Friday to be witnessed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

He reminded the jury of that evidence, including a memo the former president initialled authorising a pay cut for another executive for the exact amount of his perk, rent paid by the company.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022

Medinsky said Russia had made a second major de-escalatory step by agreeing to a possible meeting of the two countries’ presidents at the same moment that a peace agreement was initialled.

From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2022

President Mohamed Mursi's government initialled an IMF deal in November but postponed ratification in December due to unrest ignited by a political row over the extent of Mursi's powers.

From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2013

“That is correct, Monsieur. My handkerchiefs are always initialled in the Russian characters. H is N in Russian.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Sometimes, I think back to initialing the bark, or nailing a plank of wood into the trunk, or breaking a branch by accident.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

He was initialing ballots to be handed out to voters, a standard procedure mandated by state law, according to the county clerk.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

Scott McDonell, the Dane County clerk, said the man is a poll worker, and the video shows him initialing ballots before they were handed out to voters.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

But he turned out to be a poll worker in Wisconsin conducting the standard procedure of initialing ballots for voters.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

I shall be glad to have it for initialing in not more than five minutes from now.”

From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Dame Rose Macaulay

He was very preoccupied, pinning up cheques and initialling some important customer's paying-in book.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

This is the Epeira's trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Miss Belmont stooped at the table, and when Mr. Berry entered he found her initialling the pay-sheet.

From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

This is the Epeira’s trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation. 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

While Mollie and Grace closed their eyes, Betty dug idly in the sand, and Amy produced a handkerchief and a tiny embroidery frame and began initialling a corner.

From The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand by Laura Lee Hope