underwrite
Example Sentences
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When the lender doesn’t bear the risk of a loan going bad, there is no incentive to underwrite it carefully.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
“Private credit is just credit. You underwrite it well and it performs. You underwrite it poorly, and it doesn’t.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
The better question now is whether Beijing is ready to underwrite it.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
When China was credited with brokering the Saudi-Iran rapprochement in 2023, the two nations had conducted years of back-channel talks and simply required a low-risk broker to underwrite the final agreement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
It is not books as physical objects that are required to underwrite the fact; it is sources that don’t alter and change from one day to the next, of which books remain the clearest manifestation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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