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deposit

[dih-poz-it] / dɪˈpɒz ɪt /




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The Social Security Administration will deposit benefits into a U.S. bank even if you live overseas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Fillol pays 350 euros a month for a room barely big enough for a bed and a computer desk, allowing her to save towards a deposit on her own home.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The banks also addressed the elephant in the room, about how AI agents that the banks are helping finance could end up eating away at their deposit business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

In southern Madagascar, one particularly striking deposit forms a roughly circular feature that is easily distinguishable from the surrounding terrain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Elizabeth and I deposit the tindas on the kitchen counter.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Tesla showed off a prototype of the car in November 2017 and started taking deposits of $50,000—or $250,000 for a limited “Founders Series” model—from customers who wanted to get in line to buy one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Competition for deposits has intensified, with some lenders offering promotional rates above the central bank’s 3.9% base rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Another important item for investors to look at is net interest income — interest income from loans and investments less interest expense from deposits and borrowings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

Large deposits also occur in several regions of Earth, including eastern Canada, Scandinavia, southern India, and Madagascar.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Vonetta added up our deposits on her savings chart and signaled for Fern to stop shaking the jar.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

But these sites also come with dangers, as demonstrated by the massive Moss Landing battery fire in January 2025, which prompted the evacuation of about 1,500 residents and deposited heavy metals in a nearby estuary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The researchers concluded that the fine sediment at the bottom had been deposited following a major Cascadia subduction zone earthquake.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

As one part of its protection against money-laundering attacks, Polymarket US employed a rule commonly used by financial exchanges: Funds deposited from one payment source were required to be withdrawn to that same source.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Soot deposited on snow and ice absorbs more sunlight and accelerates melting.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

But I couldn’t do that until I had some money, and my first endorsement checks wouldn’t be deposited for another day or two.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Since the prehistoric era, humans have recognized the ritual power of wetlands, some by depositing votive offerings into bogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

To pay for the labor, inmates allege that individuals outside of the prison are depositing thousands of dollars into the commissary accounts of those waiting on the “Satisfy You” singer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A spokesman for the firm denied it had continued depositing on the site when the temporary stop order was in place, but said it had continued work once the order expired.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

One smart strategy is to count out six months of expenses and sock that away, then line up more to keep depositing into that account as time rolls forward.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

“Parasite of the tent caterpillar,” he says, depositing the slide with reverence on a clean piece of paper at my table.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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