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underwriter

[uhn-der-rahy-ter] / ˈʌn dərˌraɪ tər /


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Not that he wants to be a poet: “I don’t want to write,” he confesses to his friend June, who, for practical reasons, has decided to become an insurance underwriter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Working as an underwriter should give Robinhood more influence over the number of shares ultimately set aside for its customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Lead underwriter Goldman Sachs erected models just a few weeks ago of SpaceX rockets in the lobby of its New York headquarters.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Milling about, too, was Othelyn Elaine Little, 25, an insurance underwriter from Yonkers, New York.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

These payments form what may be called a reserve fund, and the individual underwriter writes his own policies.

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

Revere Securities, one of the top underwriters of foreign penny-stock IPOs, agrees to an $800,000 fine for failing to flag suspicious activity without admitting or denying the findings.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The filing lists 18 firms as underwriters, and Oura said Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Allen & Co. and Jefferies were the lead bookrunners on the deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

SpaceX sold approximately 639 million shares to the public through its IPO and as the underwriters fully exercised their overallotment options.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

The successful flotation raised about $8.5 billion for the 7% of shares that were offered although the over-allotment of shares, allows underwriters to increase that to around $10 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Even so, the fire prompted insurance underwriters to take a closer look at the building, and what they saw frightened them.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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