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- verb Simple past of
underwrite .
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Examples
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In a speech earlier this week, Giorgio Armani – whose label underwrote the exhibit – remarked on the inventiveness of these fashion designers.
Super Styles 2008
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I wanted to go off and live in London when I was 20 years old, so he kind of underwrote the whole experience and paid for the rent and paid for me to go.
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I wanted to go off and live in London when I was 20 years old, so he kind of underwrote the whole experience and paid for the rent and paid for me to go.
Mike Ragogna: Memoirs & A Tin Can Trust: Conversations with Rosanne Cash and Los Lobos' Steve Berlin 2010
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I wanted to go off and live in London when I was 20 years old, so he kind of underwrote the whole experience and paid for the rent and paid for me to go.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. could lose as much as $3.4 billion in damages and other litigation-related matters involving securities it underwrote in the last few years for which the purchasers are now suing to recover losses or to force the firm to buy them back.
Goldman: $3.4 Billion in Possible Litigation Losses Liz Moyer 2011
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And Blankfein, 56, still hasn't put behind him the criticism of Goldman's controversial role in the collapse of American International Group in 2008 - particularly its aggressive collateral calls on the credit-default swaps it had bought from AIG on subprime-packed mortgage securities, many of which it underwrote.
Asset management division's stumbles tarnish Goldman Sachs Richard Teitelbaum 2011
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And what has been the place occupied by the cloud studies in the life of the mind through the calamitous twentieth century when our founder, the late Paul Mellon, acquired one of the largest collections of paintings by Constable that exists, and, incidentally, at the same time financed the translation into English and underwrote the publication of the complete works of Carl Jung?
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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And Blankfein, 56, still hasn't put behind him the criticism of Goldman's controversial role in the collapse of American International Group in 2008 - particularly its aggressive collateral calls on the credit-default swaps it had bought from AIG on subprime-packed mortgage securities, many of which it underwrote.
Asset management division's stumbles tarnish Goldman Sachs Richard Teitelbaum 2011
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*** Financial services Goldman Sachs Group could lose as much as $3.4 billion in damages and other litigation-related matters involving securities it underwrote in the past few years for which the purchasers are now suing to recover losses or to force the firm to buy them back.
Business Watch 2011
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Goldman Sachs said it could lose up to $3.4 billion in litigation-related matters involving securities it underwrote for which the purchasers are suing to recover losses or to force the firm to buy them back.
What's News 2011
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