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A founder with three children, for example, might leave each 25% of the business while putting the remaining 25% in the hands of a trustee to allocate later based on involvement in the business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
On Instagram for example, when you turn off the algorithm, you can't see direct messages or access your profile and settings.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The council did not intercede, for example, two years ago when LA28 stopped its previous practice of naming contractors that it had paid more than $1 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Consider this example: A service brings in $100 and costs $60 to deliver, leaving $40 before other expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
This is an example of how entirely under the influence of Mrs. Underhill I was during that dreadful time.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Past examples of companies repeatedly coming to that market for funding included Tyco and Enron.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Among the more spectacular examples from St. Vitus is the 1465 reliquary tablet of the diocesan administrator Hanuš of Kolowrat by Master Martin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The secretary’s examples of Western heroism were the Spartans at Thermopylae and the philosopher Socrates, both of whom, he said, illustrate the “Western” willingness to “pay any cost for a cause worthy of his loyalty.”
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
The finding suggests that overlooked pH differences near electrodes could influence a wide range of electrochemical reactions, rather than just a few specialized examples.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
I do not wish to remain silent about one of these recent examples.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
“We’ve made tremendous progress, and that progress is exampled all across the state of California — but not equally,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Among the new locations are any place children “gather,” with exampled such as playgrounds, daycare facilities and school bus stops.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
The Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles.
From Time Magazine Archive
One stately house shall be the music house, Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here, None shall be slighted, none but shall here be honor'd, help'd, exampled.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A man of antique character; true as a child, simple, even bashful, and of a strength and valor rarely exampled among men.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Thomas Carlyle
In an ecstasy of tender contemplation he turns from those to these, exampling Julia from the rose and pitying the hapless violets as though they were indeed not blooms insensitive but actually ‘poor girls neglected.’
From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley
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