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[bond] / bɒnd /






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The bond between the two women is so strong that 55 years ago Kathleen named her daughter after Shirley.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Moves in government bond and currency markets were relatively muted, giving some comfort that the turmoil was confined to the stock market.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The bond veteran touched on another sticky point for markets — the amount of AI and hyperscaler-related bonds being issued by companies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

“When they meet it’s a different type of bond through the music — like ‘I’ve always felt on the outside,’ but also ‘We are so inside,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

The creation of the mortgage bond market, a decade earlier, had extended Wall Street into a place it had never before been: the debts of ordinary Americans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Corporate bonds fared even worse than ICE BofA’s index of Treasury bonds, which lost about 13%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Covered bonds are debt securities issued by financial institutions and are backed by a pool of assets such as mortgages.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

That’s asking a lot, however, since my auditing firm’s tracking of market-timing newsletters finds that successful market timing is no easier with bonds than it is with stocks.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

That is well above what bonds typically pay.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

In late October 2005, a subprime trader at Goldman Sachs called to ask him why he was buying credit default swaps on such very specific tranches of subprime mortgage bonds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"The minute they met, first they bonded over football," he laughed.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

As Cutler bonded with Kushner, he seeded Thrive’s initial $5-million fund with a $1-million investment.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

In Tbilisi, Ms. Goldberg and her friends bonded with an 11-year-old boy named Avi who, through complicated means, was already carrying on a correspondence with a Jewish boy in Philadelphia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Having nested together for eight years, Jackie and Shadow raised numerous chicks and bonded by restoring their nest.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

In one sense, we were huddled in there, bonded together in seeking security and warmth and comfort from each other, and we didn’t know it.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Workers failed to apply enough primer in some areas, preventing layers of the liner from bonding properly.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Conservationists are hopeful that two bonding beavers who were released into the wild earlier in 2026 could help to strengthen the population of the creatures.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

“From a neuroscience stance, when you go through something so intense with others, bonding chemicals are activated in your brain, and it’s beneficial for human mental and physical health in a lot of ways.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

And I think that’s really cool from a team bonding aspect of how they do things around here.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

I knew all that baseball-watching bonding time was too good to be true.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy




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