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That explains why the world’s biggest investment manager recently reclaimed a title it had ceded to one-time corporate cousin Blackstone for most of the past five years: Wall Street’s most-valuable publicly traded asset manager.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Since returning from a three-game injury absence, James has ceded more control of the offense to Doncic and Reaves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

The capital-formation function has been ceded to the private markets, with initial public offerings increasingly an avenue for early private investors and insiders to “monetize” their holdings rather than just raise new money.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

The government ceded ground and offered to take prison time off the table.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

In the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Crown ceded to the United States territory from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Great Lakes and north of Spanish-occupied Florida.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz