collateral
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Firms can then borrow money using those contracts – plus the AI chips they purchase – as collateral, explained analyst Cory Johnson of "The Quiet Period" IPO research outfit.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
If AI proves to be a bubble – and bursts – neocloud firms "are definitely going to face collateral damage," said Bradley Tusk of Tusk Ventures.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
A sharp selloff in equities through Friday has “created collateral damage in the precious-metals markets due to a liquidity-driven flight to safety,” said Dana Samuelson, president of American Gold Exchange.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Increasingly, small businesses like Brushstrokes + Beverages — with little capital to use as collateral against a traditional loan — are turning to nonbank finance companies for merchant cash advances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
This scheme has a collateral rub: when the regulators themselves go rogue, nothing can stop a cell from replicating continuously.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
"We hold collaterals, which will help us realize value even if Evergrande is liquidated," said a Class C creditor, who expected a better recovery rate for his debt than the bondholders.
From Reuters ● Oct. 31, 2023
Fortunately, our bodies are well protected against this kind of loss and can quickly grow new vessels, called collaterals, that carry blood around the bypass to the starving tissues beyond.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016
For the most part, the parents, grandparents, and collaterals are persons strongly preoccupied with abstractions of a scientific, literary, or artistic nature, and limited in genuine interest in people.”
From Slate ● May 1, 2013
The audience’s own knee ligaments screamed in sympathy — medial collaterals fraying like hemp rope.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2012
The motor-cell body, with protoplasmic processes, axis cylinder, side fibrils or collaterals, and end ramifications, represents parts of a neuron. a. h., axon hillock devoid of Nissl bodies, showing fibrillation; ax., axon.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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