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It's understood that the payment of that money by the King is to avoid leaving the Crown Estate out of pocket.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Voters tend to pocket success and focus on what’s bothering them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
“So when I say my parents came to California with $12 in their pocket, it’s because, Steve Hilton, my parents came to California with $12 in their pocket.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Akyn, whose office serves roughly 70,000 voters, said that no matter what the challenges, she was determined to deliver fair elections in this pocket of rural Georgia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Dad pulls his much smaller roll of money from his pocket and peels a twenty from it.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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In 1997 the world’s fastest computer occupied about 2,500 square feet, but today we have that computing power in our pockets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“The NFL pockets, they evaporate quickly, and you’ve got to get the ball out,” Kubiak said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"The void that China fills is the void in people's pockets, more than anything else," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Volunteer bakers are paying out of their own pockets so children in need do not go without a cake on their birthdays.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He turned his trouser pockets inside out, showing them to be empty.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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His team also pocketed a hefty sum -- several million dollars -- for travelling to Luanda in November 2025 for a friendly marking Angola's 50th Independence Day celebrations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
According to forms filed with the IRS, in 2023 she pocketed $907,923, a payout that included a $495,000 bonus, a number that exceeded her base pay at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He won gold in the 100m butterfly here back in 2014, while he pocketed a bronze in the 50m, but he got a gold in that on the Gold Coast in 2018.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The actual amount pocketed by the scam artists was far less.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
He finished with a score of 7–3, tied for second place, a point behind first prize, and he won $59, which he pocketed without revealing his windfall to his mother.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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But with rebates flowing, counterparties are now suing some of these companies for pocketing those higher costs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Rather, they are doing arbitrage, such as buying a bond while selling an equivalent futures contract to another investor, pocketing the difference in price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A 2017 investigation by NPR and Frontline documented numerous examples of waste and fraud, including one developer pocketing tax credits without building the required housing.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
The company argued attorneys were swindling their own clients, inflating medical bills of car crash victims to increase the value of the settlement and then pocketing a hefty chunk of the payouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
She presses the hundred back into my mother’s hand, pocketing the business card and looking past my mother to meet my eyes.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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