stake
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The company owns a 25% stake in MBDA, a joint venture that manufactures missiles with France’s Airbus and the U.K.’s BAE Systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Stock handed to employees as pay can offset the shares a company retires, so I would track shares outstanding to see whether each shareholder’s stake is actually growing.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Alonso knew what was at stake, that if Hamilton passed him quickly, the Briton would almost certainly win the race.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Musk, who has moved the headquarters of Tesla, SpaceX and X to Texas, has a growing business stake in the state.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
They pound the iron stake into the ground in a battery of perfectly timed strokes.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Instead of playing it safe, he staked his candidacy on affordability issues, particularly subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Unlike the president’s edicts to rename large bodies of water or a mountain in Alaska, rebranding AI is trickier for companies that have staked their futures, even names, on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Gold told The Times he had never publicly staked out a position on Israel or Gaza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Shares of Boeing, which has staked its turnaround in part of MAX production growth, fell sharply Monday after a weekend Wall Street Journal article outlined the problem.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
I staked out the team and cooked them their supper of meat and salmon.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Since then, the contest has been in many ways a generational fight, with the two staking out differing positions on public safety, housing production and strategies for ending homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
I expect Tino Livramento, Lewis Hall and Ben White to be staking a claim in the full-back positions.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Journalists who were already staking out the area around Burgenstock under tight security beat a retreat, knowing that the talks could be on again at any moment.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
In our dire age, a little bit of levity can often feel like a wager, staking your bets on an audience’s bandwidth for fun.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
The only good part is that ReelTok has folded up his tent and is no longer staking out the school from the park across the street.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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