proxy
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It shows that 34% of S&P 500 companies reported personal and home security benefits for their CEOs, according to data from the latest season of proxy filings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Companies often adopt some of these demands to avoid costly proxy and legal fights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Hugging Face hack instead points to switched-off safeguards, tasks assigned without a valid exit, rewards for persistence, and an internet-accessible proxy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Real one-year yields, a proxy for the real policy rate, nine years from now are at 3.3%, higher than just before the global financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The geographic separation between wife and husband was a proxy for the emotional distance that opened between them as the years progressed, exposing an unevenness that was perhaps present from the beginning of their relationship.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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So we reach for proxies: hours of sleep, number of words said, percentile growth chart.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Regional countries have also asked the mediators that any agreement should include guarantees that neither Iran nor its proxies will pose threats to their territories, according to senior Arab officials familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Independent power producers rerated like technology stocks, and utilities that spent decades as bond proxies suddenly had growth stories.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The corsairs, sometimes defining themselves as a naval mujahideen, also acted as mercenaries or proxies.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
And I wanted to hear the voices one truly never hears, the voices of guards— those on the front lines of our prison policies, society’s proxies.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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