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BBC News has previously reported on "bait-and-switch" locksmith scams, where customers were given an initial cheap quote before hidden charges and unnecessary work were added.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Shortly after raising $85.7 billion in its initial public offering, the company issued $25 billion worth of debt.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

After he and Murati co-founded the startup in early 2025, along with four other co-founders, it drew heavily from the post-training team for its initial hires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Neighbouring India has sent an initial 10 tonnes of humanitarian assistance.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The initial footage was intriguing, however, since it provided the first real glimpse of Bobby since his match with Spassky in 1992.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

After getting fired, Eatherly pivoted, creating his own remodeling business, named after his initials, DLE Contracting.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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 two had written messages on their caps in silver ink: On Alfonzo’s, “EyP, RIP,” the initials of his stepmother Patricia and his younger sister Eliana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

That was what Mass General people called the place, playing off the initials MGH.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

During his summation, Steinglass pointed to a document that had been initialed by Trump and called it “explicit” proof of his knowing that his executives were tinkering with expenses to reduce their tax liabilities.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 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

The poems — some long, some short, sometimes with crossed-out words and corrections — were each dated and signed or initialed “C.B.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

Dick dropped the binoculars into a leather case, a luxurious receptacle initialed H.W.C.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

Agreements would also be initialled with Georgia and Moldova.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2013

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

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

He was initialing ballots to be handed out to voters, a standard procedure mandated by state law, said Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

He would inquire, at least have the girl and her aunt into his court and get a good look at them before performing his routine function of initialing the legal form.

From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick

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

The earlier taste still ruled in initialling and border decorations; but little flowers were added by degrees to the thorn-leaf pattern, and birds, sometimes angels, introduced.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

Lawless had acted on an impulse in initialling her programme as he had done—a recurrence, even though slight, of the old midsummer madness.

From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young

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