investment

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as in siege
the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies the investment of Cuba was one of the decisive moments in the Cuban Missile Crisis

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as in inaugural
the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization the investment of a new diocesan bishop is typically a grand and solemn occasion

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Recent Examples of investment Their long-term investment in Shakir could have the Bills favoring another player. Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 The return on investment of educating our young, taking care of our sick and providing citizens needed services such as transportation, is not easily quantified. Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025 The Little River project will be financed by a combination of private investment, which Swerdlow said has already been secured, and the sale of federal tax credits designed to support affordable housing development. Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025 With all of these occurrences crypto investors and policy advocates would be forgiven to expect prices and investment funds to be much higher and more positive than have turned out to be true in 2025. Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for investment
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Noun
  • Israel says the siege aims at pressuring Hamas to accept its ceasefire proposal.
    Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • That was a reference to Trump’s pardon of rioters who injured police officers in the siege of the Capitol.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
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  • Presidential inaugurations that usher a new party into power almost always feel like the dawn of an era — Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama — but the second inaugural of Donald J. Trump felt fundamentally different.
    Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Similar to previous inaugurals, Nielsen’s audience numbers do not include streaming which continues to grow as a video source.
    Brad Adgate, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • Israeli troops re-imposed a blockade of the northern capital of Gaza City on Thursday, less than a day after once again deploying troops into the Gaza Strip.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • British naval blockades cut off supplies of saltpeter from traditional sources in India and South America.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
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  • Republicans in the Senate and House introduced resolutions to repeal the ban, which was vulnerable to being overturned through the Congressional Review Act because it was issued shortly before the inauguration.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 26 Mar. 2025
  • A week after inauguration day, his supporters ransacked government buildings in the capital Brasilia.
    Carrie Kahn, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
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  • And so there was a kind of bonding, initiation process, stepping into all of it.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The buyers would have the option to get guest privileges at The Mar-a-Lago Club without paying the club’s initiation fee — said to be as much as $1 million — because of an agreement Trump worked out years ago with the town.
    Darrell Hofheinz, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Investment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/investment. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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