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In its first quarterly earnings release since its $86-billion initial public offering, SpaceX in August reported that it grew its revenue and sharply cut its losses while beating Wall Street estimates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Anthropic made the disclosure in a draft of a Securities and Exchange Commission filing related to its blockbuster initial public offering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The 10 years of national data, collected between 2013 and 2022, confirmed that socio-economic status influences health at every stage -- from initial exposure to risk factors, through to diagnosis, treatment and disease management.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

The initial computational design phase took just 64 hours and required only five messages to Claude.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

During the 1950s and 1960s, the time of Bobby’s initial and then most intense ascent, an expenditure of just $5 was considered burdensome by both mother and son.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Along with its Irish heritage, Fontaines D.C.—the initials stand for “Dublin City,” which is where the group came together—had two qualities that made it distinctive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Messages on its walls included: "RIP The Boys", "Never Be Forgotten RIP The Lads", and the initials of those in the car with "Rest easy boys".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The 39-year-old pilot, identified only by his initials, MSO, was arrested Wednesday at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta international airport shortly after arriving from Kuala Lumpur.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

—Diana Alice Eldridge, right next to Georgie’s initials.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

One of the invoices is initialed “SW” with “OK to pay” written by it.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

The sisters are also selling a diamond-encrusted pocket watch, an 18k gold and platinum belt buckle and a gold initialed “AC” money clip and home movies featuring Al Capone and his associates.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

At the very top, there are two giant joists initialed by workers from 1864.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2020

I turned back to the wires, counted them, corrected the inventory slip, initialed it, and moved down to the next shelf.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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

Pages initialled by "DC" set out how the single market, due to start in 1992, would help business, workers, consumers, savers, holidaymakers.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2019

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

Next morning she was singing as usual over her initialing.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

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

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

While Mollie and Grace closed their eyes, Betty dug idly in the sand, and Amy produced a handkerchief and a tiny embroidery frame and began initialling a corner.

From The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand by Laura Lee Hope

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