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vest

[vest] / vɛst /


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She said she hoped the vest would give people a "better understanding of what women are going through".

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

Some people still carry that information in a vest pocket.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2026

Jimin, his hair grown long and dyed blond, was the night’s standout in a mesh top he paired with what looked an awful lot like somebody’s grandpa’s fishing vest.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

After the IPO, tranches of warrants in SB Energy would vest based on the company reaching certain market-value milestones.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

He’s wearing jeans, a blue-collared shirt, and what appears to be a leather vest.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

Outside Sacramento, Calif., dozens of workers in yellow vests do stretches before going out to lay a continuous, five-mile-long fiber-optic cable under the city.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Volunteer efforts had been co-ordinated from Brantham Leisure Centre and the village hall, which ran out of hi-vis vests due to the number of volunteers.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Images broadcast by Turkish television showed the upside-down ferry in the water, with people wearing life vests atop its orange hull.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

Conrad: I’d come up with something like the scratchy safety vests they make you wear when you go fishing on a boat.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

We climbed aboard the logs with nothing more than the life vests we were wearing, the bloodstained sail, and JoJo’s phone, which didn’t work anymore but which I’d been keeping in my pocket.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

In other words, she may have a vested interest in her brother not selling this property or making other decisions that could affect the value of her potential inheritance.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

He will be allowed to retain and exercise some previously vested stock options but won’t receive severance payments, benefits or accelerated stock-based awards.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

He added that he was "arguably the first minister in the history of this state that is not beholden to one vested interest".

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

“All the parties have a vested interest in honesty, and in a good user experience.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

Then he puts a finger to my moonstone badge and says, “By the power vested in me as a training agent, I promote you, Amari Peters, to Junior Agent.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

That money often comes with strings attached; about half of employees might have a vesting schedule where you can only keep the funds if you stay with the company for a certain amount of time.

From MarketWatch Apr. 10, 2026

According to ISS, another eyebrow-raising element was that the vast majority of Zaslav’s estimated compensation — over 94% — was being derived by the automatic acceleration of stock vesting and the excise tax gross-up payment.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

Lowry describes his youth as “a classic case of a father vesting a son with his own ambitions.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

Stock-based compensation expense on the income statement is measured using grant-date values, while withholding taxes are determined using share values on the vesting date.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

In England this source of party favoritism is removed by vesting the settlement of cases of contested elections in the courts, which are more apt to decide such contests on their merits.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner




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