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disgorge

[dis-gawrj] / dɪsˈgɔrdʒ /


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The Securities and Exchange Commission requires owners of 10% or more of a public company’s stock to disgorge all profits realized within any six-month period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Finally, the trucks would disgorge their citrus into a harvest wagon, the giant flatbed, which would be driven by semitruck to the processing center.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Leigh doesn’t put his characters on the couch or disgorge the traumas that are etched in every word and gesture.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

Pere points over to the port, far beyond the rows of street vendors and swelling crowds filling the square, explaining that some cruises disgorge as many of 12,000 visitors every day onto the island.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024

So the knights disgorge the bitter leaf, black with saliva, into Jacob’s small palms.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“These issues were resolved in 2021 and concluded when the Collins campaign disgorged the illegal contributions that Martin Kao had made without our knowledge.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Musk has also asked for billions of dollars made by the for-profit business to be disgorged, with the proceeds directed to OpenAI’s nonprofit arm.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026

In 1991 Will Self disgorged himself on to the British literary scene with “The Quantity Theory of Insanity,” a book of short stories seething with misanthropy and logorrhea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

It wants him to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in disgorged trading profits and penalties.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

As usual, the tree disgorged its food, and the astonished girl watched her father eating with the speed of a man who has not eaten for many weeks.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

In 2000 the SEC charged him with fraud in a case he settled without admitting wrongdoing, agreeing instead to pay a $350,000 fine and disgorging $8.3 million.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

At least four have sunk in the harbour, disgorging rubbish and fuel into waters that are part of a marine reserve.

From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2023

The clock says 5:30 a.m., but the parking lot of Sonora Market already has become an anthill as trucks cruise in and out disgorging farmworkers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

The massive cargo carriers that arrive off the coast of Southern California, some bearing more than 15,000 metal shipping containers, often must wait at anchor for days before disgorging their cargo.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021

Such made their way into the city, where transport ships seemed daily to arrive, disgorging regiments of soldiers who paraded through the streets and encamped upon the Common.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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