hoard
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Almost always lining up in a 4-2-3-1 shape, Maresca wants his teams to hoard possession, stop counter-attacks and be dominant.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Strategy fell to multiyear lows as the software company’s mounting losses on a multibillion dollar hoard of bitcoin triggered concerns about its credit position.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The combined dividend obligations on MicroStrategy’s various preferred shares are substantial—a heavy burden for a company whose legacy software business generates relatively little revenue, leaving its massive Bitcoin hoard to dominate the balance sheet.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Using spells and legal reasoning, they rallied the community to defeat a greedy dragon and use its gold hoard to rebuild the city.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Jonas stuck his hand out of the opening in the hoard, trying to wave.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
Strategy, the software company that amassed one of the largest publicly disclosed bitcoin hoards, is down by more than 80% from its 52-week highs,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Digital advertising hoards currently plastered with adverts for the "Big Rail Fare Freeze" are part of the same strategy.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
It also started buying up hoards of mortgage-backed securities to drive down borrowing costs for American households.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026
But not even Greenland’s valuable geographical position and hoards of critical minerals could compensate for damaging the trans-Atlantic alliance that remains fundamental to U.S. security.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
The Symi sponge divers spent the next ten months rescuing some of Greece’s most beautiful artifacts, one of the greatest hoards of Greek treasure ever found.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Ironically, some of the more shareholder-unfriendly banks have a lot of capital because they hoarded the capital; they didn’t allocate it.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
In times of uncertainty, people have previously hoarded savings.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
The inverse was the case when Covid-19 shut the world down—people stopped traveling and hoarded canned soup and toilet paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Trolls that could smell magic and hoarded it and guarded a poison apple tree, a stiltskin.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Henderson fell over an advertising hoarding and broke his arm after the win over Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Yes, as these companies’ statements uniformly note, those chips are being taken up by the A.I. data center rush, with Google and OpenAI leading the way in hoarding these processors.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
A public tired of hoarding toilet paper in isolation lived it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Within industries, as a supply-chain crisis unfolds, fear and self-protection instincts kick in, with hoarding and company-level stockpiling resulting in confusing demand signals that make it hard for upstream producers to respond.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
The relentless march of time and the hoarding of resources.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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