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Recent Examples on the WebVerb
Israel’s order put hospitals in an impossible position.
—Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
According to the organization, Road Runners Club of America (RRCA), runners can lose between six and 12 ounces of fluid every 20 minutes, putting athletes at risk of dehydration.
—Dr. Genevieve Jing, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2023
As might be expected, this new setup puts a real kink in Frasier’s post-Boston scenario, now having to room and deal with his contentious father and an askew care giver.
—Miles Beller, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
All of the major asset managers offer green mutual funds and index funds, meaning funds that do not put money into extractive industries and that hold companies in their portfolio to certain environmental standards.
—Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2023
In the Aztecs’ case, the time away helped put a 49-10 loss at Air Force behind them.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
Its starting price of just under $105,000 also puts it in a class above.
—Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
To put me as the scapegoat for him for losing his faith?
—Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
Rams’ 29-23 road overtime victory over the Colts by the numbers
Oct. 1, 2023
Stafford got his opportunity after the Rams blew a 23-0 lead and failed to put the game away late in the fourth quarter.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
Noun
That reflects a growing demand for bullish call options, which give the right to buy shares at a certain price and date, tied to Tesla stock, relative to bearish put options, which confer the right to sell.
—Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 14 June 2023
After a lineout to right put runners in the corners with one out, manager Alex Cora — sensing the game’s pivotal sequence — summoned righthander Josh Winckowski from the bullpen.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
Burry, who predicted the subprime mortgage crisis of the 2000s, bought nearly $890 million in puts against the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, which tracks the overall stock market.
—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2023
For every $100 in notional — the value an options contract covers — investors now pay only $3.50 for an S&P 500 put option expiring a year from now with a strike price 5% below current levels, data compiled by Bank of America show.
—Elena Popina, Fortune, 30 July 2023
There has been record trading in options this year and activity in put options hit a fever pitch lately.
—WSJ, 18 Aug. 2023
Burry’s fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $866 million in put options (that’s the right to sell an asset at a particular price) against a fund that tracks the S&P 500, and $739 million in put options against a fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
Among the women, Maggie Ewen (shot put), Brooke Andersen (hammer), Valerie Allman (discus) and Katie Moon (pole vault) and, on the men’s side, Ryan Crouser (shot put) and JuVaughn Harrison (high jump) have posted world-leading marks this season.
—Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
The NBCUniversal owner and pay TV, media and technology giant has to decide on the future of its one-third stake in Hulu, while potentially using a put option that would require Disney, which owns the remaining two-thirds, to take over its minority stake.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
Adjective
There's been an uptick in put options trading tied to the S&P 500 index, relative to calls, according to Citi data analyzing the market for one-day options.
—WSJ, 25 Sep. 2023
Throw on a thin leather brown or black belt with gold hardware and the ensemble instantly looks more put together.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023
Of the ten largest companies in the S&P 500, Nvidia is the only stock for which the price of call options — which are desirable if the stock goes up — is higher than put options, according to data from Nations Indexes.
—Byryan Vlastelica, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
Recently, the venture capital arm of L’Oreal put money into a San Diego startup, Debut, that, like Arcaea, is seeking to leverage biotech to create consumer products.
—Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
Overall deals like the one Lay Lay is under put child stars in positions of greater creative power than ever before, but her path to the top was partially paved by her father’s foresight — something that is potentially more valuable than millions of followers.
—Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
Unfortunately there’s not much motiving Gen Z employees to stay put.
—Irina Anghel, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
Indeed, federal data shows that any worker who switches jobs generally gets higher pay increases - an annual increase of about 7.7 percent, as of December - compared to 5.5 percent for employees who stay put.
—Abha Bhattarai and Maggie Penman, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
Call it another effect of the cooling labor market: Workers are deciding to stay put.
—WSJ, 17 Jan. 2023
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