underwrite
Example Sentences
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As public funding for higher education has eroded, universities have increasingly turned to wealthy donors to underwrite major projects and supplement budgets by endowing professorships and research centers.
From Salon
This upends the basic arrangement that underwrote great cities—what they are, how they work and who pays for them.
This compares with a $4.8 billion result for 2025, which it described on Friday as a record high and said reflects disciplined underwriting, strong investment returns and low large loss activity beyond the first quarter.
They said the fears surrounding Blue Owl aren’t tied to evidence of losses or poor underwriting, but rather to a misunderstanding.
Energy underwrites the ability of U.S. industry to produce weapons and the capability of the U.S. military to use them.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
