hedge
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"I got up, come down and the car is in my hedge."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Choosing per stirpes can provide a hedge if a child has children before the beneficiary designation is updated, so that a deceased child’s share will pass on to their descendants.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"I told them about how I'd have to stop my car on the way home because I was being sick in the hedge and my car was all over the show on the motorway."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The list of stocks skews toward energy — just as energy trader Arnold’s portfolio relies on those stocks as a geopolitical hedge — but also includes utilities and staples.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
He told Eisman that his main fear was that the U.S. economy would strengthen, and dissuade hedge funds from placing bigger bets against the subprime mortgage market.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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The group plants, protects and maintains trees and hedges on publicly owned land, working with councils and landowners.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The compound comes with a three-car garage, two ipe wood decks, several outdoor seating areas, and drought-resistant landscaping that abounds with leafy hedges and mature trees.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Mortgage companies often make hedges against their portfolios of mortgages, which change in value with interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
That plate went back and forth through the hedges between our houses for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
A gigantic cathedral with a labyrinth but not the cool kind made out of hedges.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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In this way, you will be largely hedged against changes in interest rates across the credit spectrum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Astoria launched a hedged growth fund for separately managed accounts in late 2020 that offers strategies similar to buffered ETFs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
EasyJet, for example, hedged 80% of its fuel supply for the first half of the year at $717/tonne - but finding the remainder at prevailing prices cost the airline an extra £25m in March alone.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
While Steyer and Xavier Becerra, the former California attorney general, both said they would support such a ban, the remaining three candidates hedged or said they would not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
On the eastern side, in the angle of two piers, there was a great door, high above the ground; and over it was a shuttered window, opening upon a balcony hedged with iron bars.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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On a July call with analysts, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said there were nearly 1,000 use cases for AI, with 50 particularly important ones across areas including fraud and hedging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Jet fuel prices will remain elevated over the July-December period, it forecast, vowing to pursue mitigating actions such as hedging for crude oil price changes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
We haven’t seen corporate borrowing spreads head materially higher, and as a result it really highlights the benefits and need to be proactive around hedging rising Treasury yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
You can already see some hedging in what he’s been saying about the race.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
It’s that their hedging is a choice, not a tic.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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