straddle

Example Sentences

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“Events are in the saddle,” said Whipple, whose two most recent books document Biden’s struggles to straddle foreign and domestic affairs.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

Currently, the March 13 at-the-money straddle is priced at about 12% of Oracle’s stock price.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

Canada’s count, at more than 250,000, doesn’t fully capture dual citizenship, or the flow of Americans whose daily lives straddle the border.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Needed: The most that we would pay for the near-term straddle, with the price of the straddle expressed as a percentage of the underlying stock price.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

“Sho he did, Lige. But he didn’t mean tuh. He wuz satisfied up dere, but de mule wuzn’t. So one mornin’ he got straddle uh de mule and he took and brought ’im on off.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston