gift
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Otherwise the IRS might try to treat the loan as a taxable gift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
As such, some exclusions were necessary to make this List of Lists work, including year-specific rankings, gift ideas, and stuff that’s simply far too outdated.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
The $3 million is a gift because it allows you to open up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
She started by making simple shapes like a stuffed orange, pear and an eggplant, working her way up to the finalized baby gift: a stuffed whale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Even Dutch stations carried mostly war news, and that we could hear just as well on the small portable radio we kept now in the dining room, a gift from Pickwick the Christmas before.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The gifts can be cash or other assets, like stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Consider this before making gifts to a young person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
I’d also be fine with smaller gifts and putting the rest toward our retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
He held me in his arms when I was a baby, brought me gifts as a child, played cards with my parents, and even worked for my family.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
I hear some of what she says as she speaks to him in Algonquian, “I bring gifts from my father...now that you are my countryman....”
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
But he was such a gifted athlete at the University of Minnesota that the Vikings decided he was worth risking in the 17th round of the NFL draft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
As a child I was once gifted a “custom” cassette tape with songs “written for me.”
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
It’s a loaded question because talent and gifted people are everywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Superintelligence is already used as a term referring to AI systems that can outperform the most gifted humans in a range of tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Word had spread that one of his professors at Harvard—the daughter of a managing partner—claimed he was the most gifted law student she’d ever encountered.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Quite how England reached the 36th minute only one goal down was a mystery to everyone inside Wembley, Marc Guehi's inexplicable turn into trouble gifting Lamine Yamal an opener inside two minutes.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
One of Burning Man’s 10 principles is gifting, which is why the festival runs on a gifting economy.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Attendees transform the desert into a temporary city that relies on “radical self-reliance” and a gifting economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After the United States, the gifting initiative launched in Canada in 2006, then the U.K. in 2007, Australia in 2013 and the Republic of Ireland in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
And it was Duryodhana, the eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers, that came to his rescue by gifting him a kingdom of his own.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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