How to Use SPAC in a Sentence

SPAC

abbreviation or noun

• That was all the rage back then, and so many of those SPAC deals were busts.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 9 June 2025
• It is called the SPAC boom, and its results are instructive.
  — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• But now, the market has dried up and shares of companies that did SPAC deals have crashed.
  — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 11 July 2023
• Investors are still very wary, and the actual SPAC market has all but dried up.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 18 July 2024
• The fintech had tried to merge with a SPAC in 2021 but ended up pulling those plans.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
• Blue Owl didn’t list until 2021 – formed through a SPAC merger.
  — Leslie Picker, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
• IonQ did its own SPAC deal in the autumn of 2021; since then its share price has more than tripled.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
• About 71 percent of the SPAC’s cash pool stayed in the merger rather than being withdrawn by investors.
  — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 2 July 2026
• Plenty of shareholders are now suing SPAC sponsors over their losses.
  — Jonathan Randles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• It is publicly traded after a SPAC transaction (of more recent vintage).
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• Lucid went public through a SPAC in mid-2021 before releasing its first car.
  — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 17 July 2024
• Peretti co-founded the site in 2006 and took it public in a SPAC merger in 2021.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 May 2026
• For an instrument that many observers had written off as a pandemic-era anomaly, SPAC is having a very loud second act.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• The company went public through a SPAC transaction last year, and currently has a market cap of around a billion dollars.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
• Could this be why IQM wants to go public via a SPAC and not a regular IPO?
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026
• The company attempted to go public via a SPAC merger in 2022, though those efforts were dropped.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2024
• For one, the Jones-Turner SPAC was still operative when Jones signed with the Clippers.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• Financial pressures and plans Despite the progress, the circumstances around the SPAC deal point to financial headwinds.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
• At its height, the company raised over a billion, going public through a SPAC merger during the 2021 frenzy.
  — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 29 May 2026
• An online home buyer and flipper, its fortunes have reversed post-pandemic and after a 2020 SPAC.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 July 2025
• Kyivstar raised $178 million in a SPAC offering in September.
  — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 10 Feb. 2026
• In 2020, as this structure appeared to stabilize, Genius Sports went public via SPAC.
  — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• The company, which went public via a SPAC in 2022, isn't profitable and has seen its shares slump as public investors retreated from growth companies.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
• Vivid Seats, a StubHub rival, went public in 2021 by merging with a SPAC from Todd Boehly.
  — Luisa Beltran, Sportico.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• Palihapitiya once helped ignite the SPAC boom among retail investors during the pandemic in 2020, but his first wave of deals mostly lead to poor returns.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
• Less than a tenth of the SPAC deals had positive share price returns six and 12 months after the transaction, according to BofA analysis.
  — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
• Meanwhile, 46 de-SPAC transactions have been announced so far this year, including 10 with enterprise values above $1 billion.
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• De Masi, who had been CEO of the SPAC that IonQ used to go public and who had served on IonQ’s board ever since, took over the role.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
• Despite this, shares are still down approximately 90% from their peaks during the SPAC era, indicating the influence of sentiment and momentum on the stock.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• So, will the current SPAC party have a different ending than the SPAC-mania era of 2020-21?
  — Drew Bernstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026