peg

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Circle’s USD Coin, one of the biggest stablecoins, briefly lost its peg to the dollar in 2023 after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, which held some of the reserves that back the token.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Market estimates peg Venezuela’s current production at around 1 million bpd, with its peak having been somewhere around 3 million bpd in the 1990s.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

“Where we peg the dividend at a moment in time is something the board will take up in, I guess…in March. And there’s not a lot more I can add to that.”

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Nature has given us a peg, with the death Jan. 13 of former UC Berkeley scientist Peter Duesberg, at 89.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

Hanako was so busy watching him that she lost focus, so when he pulled on the twine, her peg slipped loose.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata