lending

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The oil helps carry flavor into the meat while lending a subtle savory sweetness that doesn’t immediately register as tomato.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

“I still can’t grasp how he feeds all that cattle,” a Rabo employee wrote in an email to colleagues involved in the lending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Private-credit firms are tightening lending standards, increasing interest rates and fees, and restricting debt amid investor scrutiny and fund outflows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The pieces were on loan from a Bucharest museum, whose head was promptly sacked for lending the works out in the first place.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The cedar skin thus became compressed, forcing the ends of the boat up slightly and lending it what boatbuilders call “camber.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown