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swap

[swop] / swɒp /


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Credit-default swap spreads have widened across several major AI companies, but stock prices have reacted differently.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

Here is a modest proposal: Lincoln Riley and Jim Harbaugh waive their buyout clauses and swap jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Cicely Muldoon, a former superintendent of Yosemite, said the swap would set a dangerous precedent by signaling that protected natural spaces can be bartered away to private interests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The international break signals an opportunity for fans to swap their usual Premier League or Championship ticket for a trip to a local lower league club or Women's Super League match.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The paired maternal and paternal chromosomes hug each other and readily swap genetic information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

There is a moment in the 1939 film 'The Wizard of Oz' where Dorothy swaps her monochrome world for glorious, eye-opening technicolour the minute she touches down in the Land of Oz.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Derivative-based strategies designed to provide income have proliferated in the ETF market — from autocallable funds that use swaps, to covered-call strategies involving options.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Lakers sent two unprotected first-round picks and two first-round pick swaps to the Jazz for Kessler and then signed him to a four-year, $130-million contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Inflation expectations, as measured by one-year swaps, ticked higher after declining for most of the past two weeks, according to LSEG.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Instead of raising more money to buy credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds, he wound up making it more difficult to keep the ones he already owned.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The company later swapped HDQ Neutral for a different cleaning product.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Aston Villa and Tottenham effectively swapped places at either end of the table, with Villa rising up from the bottom three to finish in the top four and Spurs dropping to 17th.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

That curtain has been swapped out for something entirely new: a design titled “The Things We Know,” featuring a pensive-looking boy and girl beneath a halo of light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

I found that the day before I was swapped, he had been convicted and sentenced to 4½ years in prison for defrauding the elderly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

His camouflage outfit—he had swapped his Gap combat trousers for the real thing—fitted him badly, cutting in between his legs and under his arms but hanging loose everywhere else.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

That can mean swapping in a smaller plane with fewer seats available.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The researchers did not limit their experiments to conventional face swapping deepfakes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Chinese EV maker NIO raised some cash by selling part of its battery swapping business to Geely.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

She started following social media videos for tips and recipes, swapping out foods she didn't like.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“But that’s no reason to lose our heads. People are being downright careless, out on the streets in broad daylight, not even dressed in Muggle clothes, swapping rumors.”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling




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