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They helped crown a new class of AI darlings and piled into the SpaceX initial public offering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The abandoned Romanesque Revival-style building has been the source of numerous complaints to the city’s Department of Building and Safety since the initial fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

"During the initial search, we had examined the walls, checking for hollow spaces," said Sainte.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Amid a multi-million pound summer splurge, Spurs allowed Lankshear to leave for an initial fee worth about £10m, with an additional £10m due in add-ons based on various clauses.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

After a few initial sessions, Isaac, Amy, their living children, and a servant, “our little Dutch girl,” were regular attendees.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Another of the tokens was named NIOC, the same initials as the National Iranian Oil Company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Some pointed to reports that the driver of the BMW had the initials NSC and was born in 1961, leading to speculation that he was a former member of parliament.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

After getting fired, Eatherly pivoted, creating his own remodeling business, named after his initials, DLE Contracting.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The former leader, known by his initials JOH, returned home on July 26, nearly eight months after Trump issued his shock pardon that overturned Hernandez's 45-year prison sentence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

But even if the tunes were only half a page long she gave them names and drew her initials underneath them.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The wallet, initialed G.H., contained a New York Times article describing plans for the offensive in which he ultimately died.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

During his summation, Steinglass pointed to a document that had been initialed by Trump and called it “explicit” proof of his knowing that his executives were tinkering with expenses to reduce their tax liabilities.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022

He testified to purchasing a car for $3,500 and initialed a blank sales agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

A small auction house in Massachusetts offered it for sale as a “an unidentified gentleman, initialed I.L., and dated 1652,” with an estimate of $200 to $300.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

The next day, in Paris, Kissinger and Le Duc Tho initialed the deal to end the Vietnam War.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The US State Department said technical teams had initialled the draft text on Wednesday, ahead of a formal signing ceremony next Friday to be witnessed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

Medinsky said Russia had made a second major de-escalatory step by agreeing to a possible meeting of the two countries’ presidents at the same moment that a peace agreement was initialled.

From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2022

Agreements would also be initialled with Georgia and Moldova.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2013

President Mohamed Mursi's government initialled an IMF deal in November but postponed ratification in December due to unrest ignited by a political row over the extent of Mursi's powers.

From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2013

“That is correct, Monsieur. My handkerchiefs are always initialled in the Russian characters. H is N in Russian.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Sometimes, I think back to initialing the bark, or nailing a plank of wood into the trunk, or breaking a branch by accident.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

Scott McDonell, the Dane County clerk, said the man is a poll worker, and the video shows him initialing ballots before they were handed out to voters.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

He was initialing ballots to be handed out to voters, a standard procedure mandated by state law, according to the county clerk.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

But he turned out to be a poll worker in Wisconsin conducting the standard procedure of initialing ballots for voters.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

These latter, rashly or otherwise, had guaranteed its accuracy by initialing it.

From Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital by Ward Muir

He was very preoccupied, pinning up cheques and initialling some important customer's paying-in book.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

This is the Epeira’s trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation. 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Miss Belmont stooped at the table, and when Mr. Berry entered he found her initialling the pay-sheet.

From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

This is the Epeira's trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

The earlier taste still ruled in initialling and border decorations; but little flowers were added by degrees to the thorn-leaf pattern, and birds, sometimes angels, introduced.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese