straddle

Example Sentences

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His most productive period straddled the era of the Shah and then the Islamic theocratic forces that deposed him - with both systems ever ready to sniff out hidden messages that could be interpreted as dissent.

From BBC

“The tax treatment of gambling differs from the tax treatment of contracts and straddles, even though the underlying act is still gambling,” says Nicole DeRosa, director of tax at SKC & Co.

From Barron's

Occasionally, we find an intermediate-term straddle that is cheap in our opinion, and this is one of them, using June expiration:

From MarketWatch

I’d say even more than “Star Wars” to a certain extent, because it straddles so many things.

From Los Angeles Times

The Nama, who straddle South Africa and Namibia, are descended from the indigenous nomadic peoples – the Khoi and the San – seen as the original human inhabitants of this part of the world.

From BBC