How to Use hedge against in a Sentence

hedge against

phrasal verb

• Of course Ray Dalio is trying to hedge against the election’s options.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 20 Sep. 2024
• Savers often invest a smaller share of their funds in bonds, which offer lower returns but provide a hedge against the volatility of stocks.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
• Secure long-term contracts for energy and key commodities to hedge against future price spikes and create cost predictability.
  — Lisa Broderick, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• The only way to hedge against this is to have a second provider available.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2024
• The very act of watching over the grill — tongs in hand, your mind laser-focused on the meats — serves as a hedge against calamity.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
• The way to read the deal is as a bet on U.S. shale fracking and hedge against the left’s anti-fossil fuels policies.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
• Known as Wall Street’s fear gauge, the index tracks the price of options often used to hedge against stock-market downturns.
  — WSJ, 27 June 2023
• Property is perceived to be one of the best hedges against inflation, the report notes.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 11 May 2023
• Activists in Iran and Turkey have sought to use the service as a hedge against government controls.
  — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• Sounds like there might be better ways to hedge against market risk than snapping up those Costco gold bars.
  — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
• The increase in cargo volume to San Pedro Bay isn’t solely due to shippers hedging against a strike in the East.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Barclays, meanwhile, said that the best response to the rising prospect of a Trump victory is to hedge against inflation.
  — Carter Johnson, Fortune, 1 July 2024
• The central banks also turned to gold as a hedge against persistent inflation and the effects of the recession.
  — Sanford Mann, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Gold is also often considered to be a hedge against both the dollar and inflation.
  — Lucy Handley,katrina Bishop, CNBC, 25 July 2024
• For a Promethean, hedging against X-risk is a good reason to go multiplanetary.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
• At a minimum, access to Russian oil and gas, China’s partial hedge against a sea blockade, would be at risk.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
• Plus, Hero’s chairlift takes riders and skiers to shaded, east-facing runs, where the snow holds better, which is why Aspen Mountain has called the project a hedge against climate change.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2024
• Wall Street traders eventually got the memo, ditching downside protection and pushing the cost of hedging against drops to fresh lows.
  — Elena Popina, Fortune, 30 July 2023
• Gold can be considered not just as a hedge against a weakening dollar but as a form of currency itself.
  — Max Baecker, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• Art, in its many expressions, acts as a hedge against indifference, as its very nature is meant to elicit a range of reactions.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Aug. 2023
• The price to hedge against a U.S. government default has risen, as has the cost of government bonds due around the debt ceiling deadline - reflecting doubt about repayment.
  — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• The price to hedge against a U.S. government default has risen, as has the cost of government bonds due around the debt ceiling deadline — reflecting doubt about repayment.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• But stocks are not specifically a hedge against inflation.
  — Mark Miller, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Much of this increase in volume can be attributed to the role that stablecoins play in the DeFi sector, both as a medium of exchange and hedges against more volatile cryptoassets.
  — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Diversifying to high-yield chickens means farmers can hedge against crop failure with a cash stream that is also low carbon.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
• Gold is also used as a hedge against inflation (which can be pushed higher as rates go lower) and investors also buy the commodity in times of market stress.
  — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2024
• Some of these countries—Singapore, for example—use the space that bipolarity affords them to hedge against the risk of overdependence on any one partner.
  — Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
• But the arrangement compels lenders to hedge against the possibility that falling interest rates will tear holes in their balance sheets.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Women would do well to load up on annuities, retirement experts say, as a hedge against outliving their savings.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
• These other bets are in some ways a hedge against technological risk: AI is still a protean technology.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024