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underwrite

[uhn-der-rahyt, uhn-der-rahyt] / ˌʌn dərˈraɪt, ˈʌn dərˌraɪt /


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"We are bringing the world's leading long-term capital providers together to independently underwrite AI infrastructure."

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

According to insurance broker Marsh, insurers are becoming increasingly reluctant to underwrite voyages through the region.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

NBMs allow investors to underwrite a larger portion of the company’s earnings than prior commodity cycles have allowed, he explained, and that marks a “structural change” for the company’s EPS profile.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

“They want to underwrite on a deal by deal basis, they want to understand what they are investing in,” he says.

From Barron's May 23, 2026

A businessman learns the boy’s story and promises to underwrite part of the cost of his college education.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Democracy is the heart of our nation’s constitutional regime, and its health underwrites the Constitution’s own vitality.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

Carvana underwrites its own loans, giving it an advantage to used car salesmen, reflected in its cars worth $500 to $1000 versus rivals after reconditioning, helped by its scale, Bellas said.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

“It sort of underwrites all the flash and fun and music and the uncertainty of this current moment,” Streep said, according to Reuters.

From MarketWatch Apr. 28, 2026

It underwrites the sorts of elite cultural and educational institutions that Alexis de Tocqueville and others believed an egalitarian democracy would have difficulty nurturing.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, And rots to nothing at the next great thaw; Man is a shop of rules: a well-truss'd pack Whose every parcel underwrites a law.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

The Insolvency Service, a branch of the Department of Business and Trade, ran the company and underwrote its losses after it collapsed in 2019.

From BBC May 13, 2026

She underwrote curatorial travel, including a 1997 trip to the Johannesburg Biennial, where a cohort of American curators, among them Nancy Spector and Thelma Golden, encountered a genuinely global art world.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 2026

For more than a decade, she covered consumer lending broadly, with a focus on how lenders underwrote loans and borrowers' ability to repay them.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

In late October, brokerage industry regulator Finra started conducting a “review of firm practices” at the multiple firms that underwrote small-cap foreign IPOs between 2023 and September of this year.

From Barron's Dec. 3, 2025

A venerable bank underwrote the construction of the new meeting hall.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Intel plans to raise $20 billion by way of an underwritten public offering of 210.5 million shares priced at $95 each.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The district letter alleged Carvalho’s undisclosed travel costs were underwritten by education companies that included Scholastic, for a 2022 trip to a board of directors meeting and another event in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Insurers have been buying private credit underwritten by their new owners or issued by a company controlled by them.

From MarketWatch Aug. 3, 2026

The underwritten offerings are being led by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, with Goldman acting as the private placement agent on the Berkshire transaction.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Lee had already underwritten the funeral and sent a wash basket of groceries to the stricken families.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

CoreWeave shows what that underwriting looks like when the hardware is reusable.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Instead, “this dividend is possible due to State Farm Mutual’s financial strength and a stronger than expected underwriting performance in 2025,” the company’s website said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

State Farm is the only major auto insurer to announce a dividend payout, citing its financial strength and a stronger-than-expected underwriting performance in 2025.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Ishbia has historically called the shots at UWM, which he turned from a local lender to a national powerhouse underwriting more home loans than the country’s biggest banks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Given to mystical preoccupations, this android proposed the group escape attempt, underwriting it ideologically with a pretentious fiction as to the sacredness of so-called android “life.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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