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deposit

[dih-poz-it] / dɪˈpɒz ɪt /




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Banks have argued that yield could trigger deposit flight from banks and fought against it in the Clarity Act, a landmark measure intended to establish the first comprehensive regulatory framework for all digital assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The largest U.S. bank already has a tokenized deposit called JPM Coin and its own blockchain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

You pay taxes when you withdraw the money from your IRAs, and not when you deposit the money in your Roth IRAs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

While there is little doubt that some gold has been found in the area, questions remain about the size of the deposit in the earth and its commercial potential.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

I deposit Mango on my blanket, where he belongs.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Public Bank is reducing its reliance on wholesale deposits and increasing the use of lower-cost funding sources such as commercial papers and repurchase agreements, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

They also reexamined mysterious stem insect fossils from the Early Devonian chert deposits of Britain and the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek biota in the United States.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

Tokenized deposits typically are issued on private blockchains or walled gardens where one bank’s network isn’t necessarily connected to that of another bank.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

A letting agent has been accused of not returning the deposits of more than 100 tenants.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

As the icebergs calve from the glaciers on the continent, they bring with them mineral deposits scraped up from the ground, and release these nutrients into the water.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Its stone fireplace comes to rest on what appear to be colossal boulders deposited by the last vagabond glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The perpetrators told her to drive to the sheriff’s office to settle the signature issue, then ordered her to pull over before she arrived: Bail had to be deposited all at once, not in increments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

"Studying the ice deposited there could reveal how water spread and ultimately how Earth's oceans formed."

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

Roads have also closed due to debris and mud deposited by the flood water, according to Cardiff council.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

She looked around her in wonder, as if she had been deposited on Ida Nee’s property by mistake.

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo

Researchers around the world have explored several possible solutions, including different dielectric materials, molecular seed layers, and alternative methods for depositing oxides.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

In the video individuals are seen from afar putting their hands into the water while workers undertook cleaning work, but it did not clearly show people damaging the pool or depositing anything into it.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

One smart strategy is to count out six months of expenses and sock that away, then line up more to keep depositing into that account as time rolls forward.

From MarketWatch May 11, 2026

That means it’s likely that more buses will be pulling into Villahermosa, depositing deportees still dressed in prison sweats.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 21, 2026

And spidering into the pool are a dozen thick fire hoses—which seem to be sucking up water and depositing it into a series of tanker trucks.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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