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underwriter

[uhn-der-rahy-ter] / ˈʌn dərˌraɪ tər /


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Not that he wants to be a poet: “I don’t want to write,” he confesses to his friend June, who, for practical reasons, has decided to become an insurance underwriter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Typically, the lead marine insurer—the primary underwriter that takes the largest share of an insurance policy—would arrange for salvage operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Milling about, too, was Othelyn Elaine Little, 25, an insurance underwriter from Yonkers, New York.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Among them: Goldman Sachs is in the middle again, netting a cool $100 million as co-lead underwriter for SpaceX.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

The underwriter surveyed her thoughtfully but with covert approval.

From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy

Revere Securities, one of the top underwriters of foreign penny-stock IPOs, agrees to an $800,000 fine for failing to flag suspicious activity without admitting or denying the findings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Intel also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 31.6 million additional shares at the offering price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

As part of its stock offering, Intel expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to $2.25 billion of additional shares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

SpaceX sold approximately 639 million shares to the public through its IPO and as the underwriters fully exercised their overallotment options.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Even so, the fire prompted insurance underwriters to take a closer look at the building, and what they saw frightened them.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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