underwrite
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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
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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
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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
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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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