amassing

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Amassing assets like stocks, borrowing against them rather than selling during the owner’s lifetime, and passing them to the next generation after death is sometimes called the “buy borrow die” tax-avoidance strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Amassing an inventory, he said, at first required the type of canvassing done by fledgling political campaigns.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Amassing national wealth, in turn, depended on maintaining a favorable balance of trade, a situation in which a country exports goods of greater value than it imports.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Amassing hundreds of world-class taxidermy specimens has brought Speck attention, both good and bad, but that aspect of his life is, arguably, not the most interesting one.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2015

Amassing a competency, he emigrated to Indiana, became a Bank Director and Sunday-School Superintendent, and died beloved by all.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 by Various