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[trans-fur, trans-fer, trans-fer] / trænsˈfɜr, ˈtræns fər, ˈtræns fər /




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The looming punishment certainly complicates City's plans in the transfer market.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Call it the laziness tax: a quiet, regressive wealth transfer from inattentive consumers to the banking system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

City, regardless of each individual's view on whether they want to depart, have the right to demand transfer fees.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

For consumers, this is unambiguously good: the largest, fastest transfer of value from financial institutions to households in generations, accomplished by software rather than regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Maybe it’s an organism that could transfer to me.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

At the time of the visit, the manager was overseeing multiple transfers from other locations including 51 residents leaving another building “due to flooding.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

A portion of the oil is exiting via ship-to-ship transfers, for example, in which shuttle tankers take on the most hazardous part of the journey and then move it to ships headed to Asian refiners.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

And income is also spent on many things other than transfers, including player wages, utilities, insurance, infrastructure, marketing, foundations and more.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

One is quantum teleportation, a process that transfers quantum information from one location to another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

He and other transfers from my class recognized from snapshots the daughter of whom the older woman was so proud: Foster.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Skinner wanted to focus on being a top safety even though he started high school at Chaminade playing quarterback, transferred to Notre Dame as a sophomore and played quarterback for the junior varsity team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

At the same time, many shipping firms are carrying oil out of the Gulf by shuttling supplies just outside Hormuz, where it can be transferred to vessels headed elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Garces had been in ICE custody before being transferred to a federal prison.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The alleged attacker, who was arrested in Saudi Arabia, is expected to be transferred to the United Arab Emirates, from where the plane departed, Netanyahu told Fox News.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The solicitor's letter added that if Miss Honey would kindly call in to the office as soon as possible, then the property and the money could be transferred into her name very rapidly.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

In one experiment, transferring microbiota from mice that received a mulberry preparation to other animals was associated with improvements in some metabolic disturbances.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

The guilty pleas came shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation barring third-party brokers from advertising, selling or transferring tee-time reservations at publicly owned golf courses without the written consent of the course operator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Like an AI agent taking and transferring data when it should not have, OpenAI said.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Then, in the process of transferring her accounts from the previous custodian to Kirwan’s firm, the client was contacted by a scammer and told that her accounts were compromised.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Katie was always correcting her and transferring the chalk or the needle from her left hand to her right.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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