stake
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In the past, a lot of those fights were personality-based, but now there are some real policy goals at stake.
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Her management earned the accolades of Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway has long held a stake in Occidental.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Last year, it said it would expand its stake in Mexico-based concert promoter Ocesa to 75%.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Smead Capital Management, which Smead founded, owned about 1.5 million shares of eBay as of the end of the first quarter in the Smead Value Fund, a stake now worth nearly $160 million.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
“We realized the importance of saving Paris,” gunner William Maher of the U.S. artillery said later, “and the Allied army was at stake too.”
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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