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In the 2000s, derivatives created from subprime mortgages were accorded top credit ratings; now, the so-called illiquidity premium on portfolios of loans to small and midsize private companies is considered their secret sauce.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Selecting a Thanksgiving day was a royal prerogative, he declared, accorded solely to him as the representative of the Catholic King James II. Andros named Dec. 1 as Thanksgiving Day for all New England.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Mr Cheetham said the policy also "accorded with relevant legislation and guidance at the time".

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Fans — many? most? all? — saw these arrests as special bad treatment accorded to a famous person, but, says Reubens, “30 years later, I still feel the effects all the time.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

In the middle years of the seventeenth century experience stopped being something that accorded naturally with the statements of previous authorities and became a caustic solvent of fabulous beliefs.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton