vested interest

Example Sentences

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Disney already has a vested interest in device-based entertainment.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026

According to the Canada-based investigator who didn't want to be named, the inquiry has become "unusually contentious because so many stakeholders have a vested interest in its outcome".

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

And China has its own vested interest in a free and open waterway, where nearly 50% of the country’s crude oil imports pass through each day.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

“If you are a major agricultural producer, then you have a vested interest, as does your insurer, to make sure that you don’t have catastrophic floods,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

But we too embrace faulty causes, usually at the urging of an expert proclaiming a truth in which he has a vested interest.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt