settlement

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In a securities filing, Saïd attached a July 2024 email to Bennett, in which Saïd called the settlement a “payoff.”

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Melania Trump later sent a letter to Wolff demanding that he retract his statements, apologize and offer her a financial settlement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

“Taken together, that tells you an alternative settlement architecture now exists,” LaValle said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

In fact, I expected the outcome since about day seven, including China’s role in bringing about a settlement, though minus any blather on my part about a victory for the mullahs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The term conveyed the political fear, so potent among the Antifederalist critics of the constitutional settlement of 1788, that the states would be absorbed by the new federal government.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis