hoard
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“What people who hoard will finally realize,” Mawarire said, “is there’s an emptiness that comes where a sense of purpose should go.”
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Banks were encouraged to hoard these reserves both by black-letter liquidity regulations and by strenuous winking and nodding by their supervisors at the Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The court heard that the size of the hoard recovered from MacPherson's home was so large it had "overwhelmed" officers' capacity to check and categorise it.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Strategy, the software company that amassed one of the largest publicly disclosed bitcoin hoards, is down by more than 80% from its 52-week highs,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It also started buying up hoards of mortgage-backed securities to drive down borrowing costs for American households.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 17, 2026
But not even Greenland’s valuable geographical position and hoards of critical minerals could compensate for damaging the trans-Atlantic alliance that remains fundamental to U.S. security.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
There have been several coin "hoards" found over the years, usually deliberately buried and never recovered, typically during periods of turmoil or as a religious offering to the gods.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
“From Jamaica. Mother hoards it for special occasions, but it’s starting to lose its flavor now.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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So why are people so captivated by videos of hoarded homes, crime scene cleans and other extreme clear-outs?
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
She dotes on her husband, who suffers from dementia and comes to terms with all the paraphernalia and recordings from her career that she hoarded for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Ironically, some of the more shareholder-unfriendly banks have a lot of capital because they hoarded the capital; they didn’t allocate it.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
As with gold, silver has long been hoarded by investors worried about inflation, government debt, and the overall safety of the modern financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
She hoarded them in a box under the bed.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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This week, some supermarkets in Tehran temporarily ran out of cooking oil and rice as shoppers scooped them for hoarding, residents said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The government has capped stocks held by traders and wholesalers at 400 tonnes for three months to curb hoarding.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Really, what drives fans nuts is L.A.’s oligarch-style hoarding: its presumptuous seizing of what everyone needs, even when they don’t need it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
While you don’t have any control over point devaluation, you can protect yourself by spending your points and not hoarding them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“He’s a thieving rat of a man, but he’s loyal to the King. I know he’s been hoarding his best wares.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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