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corporation

[kawr-puh-ray-shuhn] / ˌkɔr pəˈreɪ ʃən /


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For over a century, corporate criminal liability in the United States has held that a corporation acts through its “human agents”—employees, managers, executives, officers.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

He admits the use of a development corporation "isn't without controversy" as City Hall and the local authority, along with those it represents, consider the West End differently.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

However, the additional production of gas from Jackdaw could result in more corporation tax revenues for the UK government, because any profits made by the owner would be taxable.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Today’s result makes clear that no corporation is too powerful to be held accountable,” New Mexico state Atty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

My uncle had worked for a corporation and hated it—same thing, every day—and I was determined never to end up like him.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Eventually, the complaints became sufficiently widespread that Instacart did what corporations increasingly do when confronted with an inconvenient internet phenomenon: It made the phenomenon into an advertisement.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

The initiatives pitted some of California’s most successful Native American tribes with gaming interests against gambling corporations, including online sports gaming companies DraftKings and FanDuel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

A key priority will be encouraging corporations to donate a share of profits to a near-empty UN fund to support conservation in developing countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Yet executive recruiters say the one-page summary released this week isn’t fundamentally different from the ways companies size up executives for CEO jobs or other top positions in American corporations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Despite their having no real bodies, the American legal system treats corporations as legal persons, as if they were flesh-and-blood human beings.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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