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Alternatively, may want to keep at least part of the money in a high-yield savings account or money-market account to safeguard it from the corrosive powers of inflation.

From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026

“But do keep at it with the fake news, actual malice standard is now what some would call a legal lay up,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Under 25-year-old rules, traders who borrowed money from their broker to make four or more day trades within five business days had to keep at least $25,000 in their margin accounts.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Raman said she is exploring whether those dollars could be used to keep at least some of the 14,500 households at risk housed, something other officials said they are looking at as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

Then, to keep at a distance dogs or men, he took a sharpened lance, and went to rest under a hollow rock where swine were sleeping out of the w ind and rain.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer