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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

The project, built with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has also brought an unlikely Russian enclave to rural Bangladesh.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Although the BBC produces a lot of its own programmes, the corporation buys some international shows for its TV channels and iPlayer streaming platform.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s so familiar you might think it’s in the nature of any corporation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

There was a natural role for a blue-chip corporation with the highest credit rating to stand in the middle of swaps and long-term options and the other risk-spawning innovations.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Yet executive recruiters say the one-page summary released this week isn’t fundamentally different from the ways companies size up executives for CEO jobs or other top positions in American corporations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The fund aimed to raise $1 billion a year from corporations for conservation in developing countries but so far has attracted just $6,000.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

De Masi said American corporations and the U.S. government must be prepared ahead of “Q-Day”—a looming point in time when quantum computers will be powerful enough to crack today’s widely used public-key cryptography.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

At the Chicago fair, corporations sponsored full-scale model homes and filled them with products already available or soon to be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Take for example the world of business corporations.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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