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tie up

[tahy-uhp] / ˈtaɪˌʌp /




tie-up


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Nunez dismissed the idea saying it would "tie up almost half of the security deployment".

From Barron's May 31, 2026

These investors tie up their money in PE funds for much longer and lack frequent redemption windows.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 11, 2026

They don’t want to tie up their money, especially for a degree that seems increasingly precarious.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

Second, if she outlives him, I assume his children might resent her, since that could tie up a sizable portion of their inheritance.

From MarketWatch Mar. 3, 2026

There was no way that many people from Dallas would come to a football game 350 miles away in Odessa, and he did not want to tie up such a large number of tickets.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

A tie-up of Genesis and Vault will benefit from the proximity of Genesis’s Tower Hill project to Vault’s King of the Hills mill.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The decision followed a change in ownership at the department store, whose incoming management said the tie-up had been a strategic mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Its tie-up with SpaceX comes as Musk's company tries to catch up with rivals by growing its AI business, xAI, which is behind the controversial Grok chatbot.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

The move by KKR is the latest tie-up between private-equity and energy-related companies that focus on AI computing needs.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

Simpson stalked toward Luke, hoping for a tie-up.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

The tie-ups were unveiled after CEO Jensen Huang spent the weekend eating barbecue in Seoul with the country's tech leaders and appearing on a popular TV show.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

Revenue from big corporate tie-ups and facilitating stock and bond trades powered the nation’s biggest banks to a record year.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

US artificial intelligence chip titan Nvidia unveiled tie-ups with Indian computing firms on Wednesday as tech companies rushed to announce deals and investments at a global AI conference in New Delhi.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

Ferguson continued to chase brand endorsements and other moneymaking deals, including tie-ups with the US retail giant Target and the cruise line Cunard.

From BBC Feb. 11, 2026

That afternoon, when Mr. Zuckerman went to milk the cows and clean out the tie-ups, he was still thinking about what a wondrous pig he owned.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White




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