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But you are still put under an obligation, and these gifts create an intangible, everpresent debt to be repaid.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

While Boeing paid $8.4 billion—including common stock, loan settlements and debt repayments—it initially allocated $10 billion of the purchase price to the intangible asset goodwill as of Dec. 31 last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“He’s done so many intangible things that I think get lost in the shuffle of numbers and metrics,” Prior said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

He said estimating the value of the sapling was difficult, because of its intangible sentimental value, likening it to a piece of "stolen art".

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

She could hear more clearly than ever the immense singing hiss and swish of vast intangible forces.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Separately, the new chair of the OBR Jonathan Haskel is known for his argument that official statistics understate investment in intangibles like software and data.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Warner said the recent quarter included a $1.1 billion worth of pre-tax acquisition-related amortization of intangibles, content fair value step-up, and restructuring expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

So we asked workplace performance expert Henna Pryor how workers can go about making sure they have more of the intangibles that could be required to stand out in the AI era.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026

As Gave notes, “so much of the valuation of the U.S. equity market is based on intangibles and the belief that ‘knowledge’ is the most important of assets.”

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Grief, terror, love, longing — these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien