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something that you promise to give someone if you cannot pay back a loan
They put up their house as collateral for the loan.
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Recent Examples of collateral
Cloris Chen, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
For his part, starting in 2018, Kahn had used a series of acquisitions to create FRG with financial support from B. Riley and in last year’s buyout the latter took a 31% stake in FRG and also loaned Kahn about $200 million, using his stake as collateral.
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Oct. 2024
The federal courts generally haven’t looked kindly on these collateral attacks on federal agencies, however.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
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Composable DeFi applications: Tokenized AI assets that are backed with real cash flow make yield-bearing tokens that are easily integrated into DeFi as collateral.
—Cloris Chen, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
For his part, starting in 2018, Kahn had used a series of acquisitions to create FRG with financial support from B. Riley and in last year’s buyout the latter took a 31% stake in FRG and also loaned Kahn about $200 million, using his stake as collateral.
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Another defense is that the claims have already been litigated and are thus barred by res judicata and collateral estoppel.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Oct. 2024
The federal courts generally haven’t looked kindly on these collateral attacks on federal agencies, however.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
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This step takes a lot more money than most people realize and can often require funding of at least 20% of the total budget of a film, including to acquire rights, commission a screenplay, and escrow deposits to attach talent.Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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My business generates about $18,000 a month in passive income, based on my calculations from a recent month’s deposits.Amy Landino, Contributor, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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Movement intention originates in the brain, which sends electrical impulses through the peripheral nerves to tell the muscle to contract.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2024
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None of these peripheral characters feel fully sketched out, despite the actors trying to liven things up; at least Crowe lends gravitas and a sense of anarchy to his nightmare of a patriarch, and Nivola seems to be having fun prior to his CGI transformation thing.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jargon and buzzwords: Jargon, much like slang, is terminology that often develops as a kind of short-hand used by members of a group—like computer people talk about RAM, CPU, URLs, and related things.Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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In response, the board investigated revenue recognition practices, export control policies, the rehiring of employees who had resigned following earlier accounting issues, and disclosure of related party transactions.Jane Thier, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Congo's health minister, Roger Kamba, reported an additional 44 deaths occurring in the community.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Fire departments bring on additional staff while the warnings are in play.Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Each year, the series honors one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, along with associated cultural motifs.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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One was a notebook of names and associated fingerprints for when inmates first entered the prison.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Lauren Goode: Total Nextdoor vibes or stuff about relationship drama, really messy situations.Lauren Goode, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
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Comments There was a lot of flat-out amazing stuff on Survivor 47’'s penultimate episode.Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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There are supplemental policies from private insurers which are not taxed that will increase your income in case you are disabled.James Brewer, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Although Millett’s 2023 bill didn’t pass, a year later lawmakers decided to create and fund the rent relief program with $18 million through the supplemental budget process.Sawyer Loftus, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
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The dinosaur’s primary weapon, however, is its barbed tail; researchers know this from observing that one fossil of a contemporaneous dinosaur predator bears a painful-looking hole matching the size of a Stegosaurus tail spike.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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Add the contemporaneous arrival of a lively market for contemporary art, which had barely existed earlier in 20th century America, and all those rival brand names could seem like desperate promotional efforts to crack the market with comfortably retrograde, highly salable pictures.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Collateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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