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You pay federal ordinary income taxes on the interest upon redemption, but that interest is exempt from state and local income taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
"The Makerfield test is a really valuable way of making sure that the economy works in service of ordinary people," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
The wonder of the Grouse County novels, however, is the way their storytelling dissolves distinctions between the ordinary and the unusual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Brown dwarfs are generally too small to sustain the hydrogen fusion that powers ordinary stars, yet they are more massive than planets.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
It was a new and startling thing to me for ordinary friendship to be as off-limits as romance could be.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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The only way in which ordinary shares can become ADRs is if someone were to convert ADRs to ordinaries and create room.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Ms. Wolfe started digging there and in other archives, and so far has gathered a dozen unknown or forgotten depictions of the arms in heraldic reference works called alphabets and ordinaries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2016
Photograph: Courtesy of Susan Faludi If someone were to ask me to declare my identity, I’d say that, along with such ordinaries as nationality and profession, I am a woman and I am a Jew.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016
What actually constitutes "immodest fashion" the Twelve Orders leave to be construed by the local ordinaries of dioceses, as circumstances may require.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Women kept ordinaries and taverns from early days.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
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