pivotal
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play a pivotal role by buying up mortgages and packaging them to sell to investors, guaranteeing the investors payments even if borrowers default.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Duran helped get them there and will be pivotal in trying to keep them there.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
In the 1980s, the late political strategist Clint Reilly was among the first political consultants to use voter roll data to segment and target pivotal voters for turnout and persuasion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
“We’re in a pivotal moment of a historic AI investment cycle,” Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said in a statement.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
She hasn’t moved from her spot in the hallway, and though Muhammad has reached the pivotal point of Sarah “declaring” her commitment to him, it isn’t him she’s staring at.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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