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corporation

[kawr-puh-ray-shuhn] / ˌkɔr pəˈreɪ ʃən /


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The Adelanto facility is operated by the GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison corporation that has faced criticism for years over conditions at its immigrant detention facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"There is certainly no corporation tax to recover. Football clubs lose money and City would have lost more money had it not been for the activities it undertook."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Anthropic is already a public-benefit corporation, with a majority of its board appointed by an independent trust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The firms downsize staff and sell off parts of the purchased company to create dividends, all while charging the purchased corporation management fees for their trouble.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

His voice, easy and refined, carries in it the authority of someone who runs a huge corporation.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

"There is momentum for climate litigation in the courts," Dennis van Berkel of the Climate Litigation Network, which supports legal action against states and corporations, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Instead of alienating our allies, we should collaborate with them to ensure that multinational corporations aren’t playing us off each other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Just marches are not enough because it’s kind of easy to ignore those. But when it’s a march with a purpose and calling out big corporations, it has more impact.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

So yeah, I have enough to let a year drift, but I don’t know how to gauge or judge getting back into the club, the business, because corporations are frightened.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Then she heard the voices coming from inside: They were saying something about lawsuits, something about corporations, something about a proposition....

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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