subordinate
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Curaleaf’s offer of $4 a share is made up of 0.3463 of a Curaleaf subordinate voting share and 75 cents in cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“A relationship with a subordinate is so garden-variety, it’s not going to influence that many board members other than for them to say, ‘Let’s give this person a warning,’” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
"Nor can the interests of national associations, leagues, clubs, players and supporters become subordinate to investor returns. Football cannot mortgage its future for financial gain," Ceferin said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
A few of the subordinate roles are amateurishly performed, but the main parts are vividly pulled off, and I was generally impressed by the ensemble’s flow and cohesion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“They don’t mind what they ask of me, the subordinate; but you’ll never catch ’em asking any questions of my principal.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Wasn’t it true, a juror asked, that he had taken to delegating tasks to subordinates in recent years?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Tools like backbriefs allow subordinates to develop the necessary warfighting skills to succeed in that environment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
He has dismissed encouraging American-style consumerism and warned subordinates against raising a generation of “lazy people.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Its Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which includes Iran, shed scores of career officials last year, many of them replaced by greener subordinates or political appointees.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
It meant he had to place a lot of trust in his subordinates.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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A press release from EFG refers to "approximately 232.6 million euros of subordinated debt".
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The iTraxx Europe Sub Financials index of euro subordinated bonds CDS falls 3bps to 109bps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
In his post on X, he said that "the fight against drugs must be subordinated to the human rights of the Caribbean people".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
That climate of deference fostered a culture of complicity, where questions of social responsibility were subordinated to uncritical faith in authority.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
The Mexica were subordinated by a nearby city-state on the shore, and the tlatoani was forced to send Mexica men as conscripts for its wars.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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“We are going to collaborate .. but without subordinating ourselves,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
He prioritized camaraderie with league officials to burnish his résumé, subordinating WSU’s interests.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Foti did not respond when asked about Gosar's pattern of subordinating congressional rules to his religion.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023
Subordinate clauses begin with a subordinating word or phrase such as although, because, even if, when, whenever, since, as though, whether, as long as, until, or while.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
For that matter, many of the words that were traditionally called subordinating conjunctions, like before and after, are actually prepositions.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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