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charter

[chahr-ter] / ˈtʃɑr tər /




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Chime, meanwhile, this week said it would acquire Stride Bank and its national banking charter, allowing it to make its own loans without a partner.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

It has operated as a low-cost carrier for two decades, tracing its origins back to a charter company called Travel Service.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Anthropic this year removed a pledge from its safety charter to halt development of its models if it failed to control their risks.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

The proposed bank charter “would establish a federal supervisory framework for certain custody and related activities currently offered by Block,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Someday, I’ll charter a schooner out of Panama and explore the Devil’s Mouth.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

Still, Mr. Dais says he knows students who tried Success Academy and left, and he opposes lifting the state’s cap on the number of charters, even as he acknowledges their agility.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

And anyone serious about increasing black and Hispanic enrollment might consider the record of high-performing charters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The businesses tied to outdoor leisure that are expected to benefit include golf courses, outdoor entertainment venues and providers of fishing charters.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Melvoin’s opponent is Ankur Patel, outreach director for Hindu University of America, who is critical of some charters but not as much as Rivas is, based on his survey responses.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Shelly said, “I’ve known Paine since back when he and Dusty used to fish charters out of Ted’s. He was always a gentleman—your daddy, 1 mean, not Dusty.”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

"All service charge expenditure is audited by a firm of chartered certified accountants. A summary document detailing the residential expenditure is provided to each leaseholder by the managing agent."

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Instead, the chartered bank would be able to issue and manage cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Upon final approval, World Liberty Trust will operate as a federally chartered national trust bank.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Officials have confirmed 80 greyhounds were exported from New Zealand to Queensland through a chartered flight in April 2025.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Vessels still are likely to encounter “port congestion,” as well as chartering and scheduling disruptions, said Sean Pribyl, a maritime attorney at Holland & Knight.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

The coalition he belongs to is chartering buses to bring protesters from across California for Monday's game and is hoping to have "40- to 50,000 people" around the stadium, he said.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 2026

Prices in both regions surged this week, along with the cost of chartering tankers to move the gas.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

For example, Epstein discusses chartering a plane from Scotland for the redacted user in the chat, and offers praise for their "Oxford speech".

From BBC Nov. 14, 2025

There is no authority for the assumption that the chartering of these companies is in obedience to the wish of the people, either expressed or implied.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud




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