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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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Jason Clayworth, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
The deposition continued: Q: So had the value of that collateral decreased?
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2024
The rest of our property is collateral for the note.
—Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
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Applicants must demonstrate a lack of access to traditional loans due to things like limited credit history or a lack of collateral.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
The deposition continued: Q: So had the value of that collateral decreased?
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
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My brother made collateral enemies, because defending the forest affects interests.
—Outside Online, 2 Oct. 2024
The rest of our property is collateral for the note.
—Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
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The team is currently working on creating an improved coating that can reduce FOG deposits in sewers by enhancing both its self-healing capabilities and mechanical strength.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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The encampment residents who accepted offers for help can continue to draw from that pot until June 2026 for needs ranging from apartment deposits to job preparation, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness is helping oversee the latter effort.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Those settlements show another, quieter front in China’s expanding efforts to assert its control over disputed, peripheral territories – also playing out in the South and East China Seas – as Chinese leader Xi Jinping seeks to bolster national security and enhance China’s position over its rivals.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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There’s also very clear softness and smearing in your peripheral vision.Andrew Williams, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Boutin has been in remission from thyroid cancer since August, but just had a related surgery last week and the couple was anxious about Boutin inhaling any smoke.CNN.com, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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More recently, OpenAI, based in San Francisco, CA, has introduced Generative AI, which, along with related technologies, is putting Silicon Valley back at the epicenter.Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The circumstances of the crash were unclear, and no additional information is available at this time.Christina Shaw, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
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No additional information has been made available at this time and the investigation into the incident is currently ongoing.Jon Haworth, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Researchers found that during such an experience, some of these LAAs were activated; re-activating the LAAs in a different environment appeared to stimulate recall of the memory and associated learning.Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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By altering the benchmarks reflective of the new expectation that agents will handle multiple chats concurrently, Autodesk has transformed both the goals and the associated behaviors, setting a new baseline for productivity.Peter High, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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All of the young brothers that call Louis Armstrong a ‘Tom’ and all that stuff.August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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So, that stuff is naturally going to come down, especially against a Rockets defense that takes away spot-up opportunities.Matt Modi, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Trump campaign also noted enhancements to Medicare Advantage plans during his tenure as president, such as increasing access to telehealth and expanding supplemental benefits for seniors with chronic diseases.Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2024
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For older workers or people in poor health, supplemental life premiums may be lower than an individual policy on the open market.Liz Knueven, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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Martinique’s contemporaneous Négritude movement made fruitful use of Surrealism alongside Marxism, colonial resistance, and an embrace of Blackness.Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Why were there multiple contemporaneous hominin species at Woranso-Mille and not at nearby Hadar?Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Collateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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