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hoard

[hawrd, hohrd] / hɔrd, hoʊrd /




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The builders unearthed the hoard while working on the building's foundations - including an 18-year-old working a summer job.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

And the company has put some of its massive cash hoard to work, for the first time since Abel took the reins.

From MarketWatch Aug. 8, 2026

This biological hoard once dismissed as “junk DNA” or the “dark genome” has turned out to be full of hormones and microproteins that play important roles in directing the body’s systems and processes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Consistently low rates would rebalance the economy in favor of debtors, he thought, and reduce incentives for people to hoard money and instead encourage them to spend and invest, thereby stimulating employment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The quest was successful, and the Dragon that guarded the hoard was destroyed.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Strategy, the software company that amassed one of the largest publicly disclosed bitcoin hoards, is down by more than 80% from its 52-week highs,

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

It also started buying up hoards of mortgage-backed securities to drive down borrowing costs for American households.

From MarketWatch Jan. 17, 2026

But not even Greenland’s valuable geographical position and hoards of critical minerals could compensate for damaging the trans-Atlantic alliance that remains fundamental to U.S. security.

From Barron's Jan. 8, 2026

There have been several coin "hoards" found over the years, usually deliberately buried and never recovered, typically during periods of turmoil or as a religious offering to the gods.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2025

The Symi sponge divers spent the next ten months rescuing some of Greece’s most beautiful artifacts, one of the greatest hoards of Greek treasure ever found.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

So why are people so captivated by videos of hoarded homes, crime scene cleans and other extreme clear-outs?

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Ironically, some of the more shareholder-unfriendly banks have a lot of capital because they hoarded the capital; they didn’t allocate it.

From Barron's Apr. 16, 2026

A compensation reset was probably inevitable after companies hoarded talent and dangled big raises a few years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Price discovery is critical, else you get hoarding, shortages and bare shelves.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Henderson fell over an advertising hoarding and broke his arm after the win over Mexico.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

While you don’t have any control over point devaluation, you can protect yourself by spending your points and not hoarding them.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

That is to keep teams from hoarding revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Someone must have been hoarding sugar just in case there was a direct hit on the airfield and everybody needed cheering up.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein




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