How to Use arbitrage in a Sentence

arbitrage

1 of 2 noun
  • This is not simply a merger/arbitrage view that the spread is ‘too wide’.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 28 May 2026
  • But don’t be surprised to find some balance sheet arbitrage there.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 1 July 2018
  • There are some people who make arbitrage trades in after-hours trading.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
  • This is about high-level labor arbitrage.
    Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • A number of other delta-neutral arbitrage strategies like this can be found as well.
    Alexander S. Blume, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • This isn't a temporary blip driven by cost arbitrage.
    Kevin Chan, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • And the math says the only path to solvency runs through the 59% arbitrage.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Lasry feels there's an arbitrage play with PBR.
    Alex Sherman,contessa Brewer, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The arbitrage play on the acquisition was an out-of-character move to make short term gains.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Investors were promised up to 7% interest per week, and that their funds would be used for bitcoin arbitrage.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
  • For years, tech leaders have approached workforce gaps with talent arbitrage.
    Cuong Nguyen Cao, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The dynamic can result in a run on the currency, which is sufficient for the arbitrage to fall apart in the short term.
    Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • This ability to exploit time arbitrage has served the company and its shareholders well over the years.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • That means more flexibility for both buyers and sellers, and juicy arbitrage for traders in the middle.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 28 May 2026
  • This was the magic of labor arbitrage, the movement of jobs to produce goods or services from high-cost regions to low-cost regions.
    Willy Shih, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This ability to take advantage of time arbitrage has served the company and shareholders well over the years.
    Bill Stone, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
  • While arbitrage traders were shorting the stock to cash out, meme traders stepped in trying to pump up the stock, squeeze out the shorts, and cash out before the stock price returned to earth.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2022
  • That spread implies that merger arbitrage funds have some doubts about the deal closing, but Takeda shares look cheap no matter what happens.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
  • This is just about understanding supply and demand mechanics and being able to work the arbitrage.
    James Manso, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The immediate losers are the arbitrage hedge funds that piled into NXP.
    Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • One of the most significant shifts emerging from this trend is the rise of what could increasingly be described as healthcare arbitrage.
    Meggen Harris, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Broken deals have whipsawed hedge funds that focus on merger arbitrage, a type of trading that places bets on the likelihood that deals will be completed.
    Leslie Picker, New York Times, 11 May 2016
  • Mr Liu can deploy wage arbitrage between the richest and poorest places, using the internet.
    The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Regulatory and tax arbitrage is alive and well in banking—and one Nordic bank is taking advantage.
    Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The county’s contemporary image is hard to escape, but the region was a very different place before the era of arbitrage and hedge funds.
    Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
  • That process takes time, which can translate into arbitrage opportunities.
    Evan Gorelick, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Among Alameda’s trading strategies was arbitrage—buying a coin in one location and selling it elsewhere for more.
    Hannah Miao, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The report led to a ban on dividend arbitrage tied to stock in United States corporations.
    David Segal, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
  • It was followed by relative value/ arbitrage and multi-strategy funds, both with returns in the 14% range.
    Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The professional traders will mostly be looking to do arbitrage, between the futures and bitcoin itself.
    Fortune, 9 Dec. 2017

arbitrage

2 of 2 verb
  • Another puzzle with anomalies is why they are not arbitraged away.
    The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Sell the beer at a reasonable price (whatever that means), and all of the sudden it's being arbitraged left and right.
    Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 6 Oct. 2015
  • One explanation is that foreigners have direct access to the market, and so large price gaps can be arbitraged away quickly.
    Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
  • One risk is that, as local investors clamour to buy them, CDRs will trade at a huge premium to their foreign counterparts. Because of capital controls, there is no channel for arbitraging between onshore and offshore markets.
    The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Flexe is arbitraging the mismatch between supply and demand, taking a commission for each transaction.
    Spencer Soper, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • Were this only a matter of firms arbitraging better rates and swapping back to dollars, the Americans would be dominated by banks.
    Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2019
  • CEOs may arbitrage the best and cheapest job seekers across the country—and potentially globally.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Of course, cryptocurrency mining is hardly the first industry to arbitrage electricity prices to make some good's production more profitable.
    Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
  • These assets tend to be difficult to value using fundamental analysis and difficult to arbitrage.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The authors attribute this problem in part to the profit fees paid by winning bettors, which reduce the incentive for traders to arbitrage between contracts and improve their accuracy.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 8 Aug. 2022
  • As those who engaged in arbitraging globalization prospered, those anchored to local markets grew increasingly marginalized.
    Robin Niblett, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2021
  • During periods of severe market volatility, APs may have a harder time arbitraging away premiums and discounts.
    Debbie Carlson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026
  • One advantage of ETFs is that shares can be readily created and redeemed to arbitrage away any discount or premium, which could greatly broaden their appeal.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Now, before this comes off as a tribute to arbitrage and saving pennies on the margins for billionaire owners, a reminder that what makes the Dodgers so imposing and the Giants potentially so is smarts stacked atop resources.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Personal shopping services, buying cooperatives or even friends and family networks could arbitrage these differences, providing wealthy customers access to the lower prices while splitting the savings.
    Aradhna Krishna, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Another potential explanation for these fluctuations is that traders are arbitraging spreads between these assets to make incremental profits on their existing trading strategies.
    Steve Larsen, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • As Ars Technica points out, arbitraging cheap power is a widespread business tactic in industries as diverse as aluminum production and marijuana cultivation.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2018
  • One popular service in DeFi -- though not offered by Uniswap -- is yield farming, also known as liquidity harvesting, where users lend crypto to arbitrage different digital tokens or get interest.
    David Pan, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Most are basically thin wrappers seeking to arbitrage LLM pricing, with virtually no differentiation or competitive moat.
    Rob Reid, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Korea’s Forex Rules To arbitrage the price gaps between bitcoin venues in Korea and elsewhere, local traders must first exchange their won into a foreign currency, such as the dollar or euro, that’s accepted by overseas cryptocurrency venues.
    Julie Verhage, Bloomberg.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • By choosing a jurisdiction with strict privacy laws and tougher limits on photographing children, Clooney is effectively arbitraging legal regimes the way multinational corporations arbitrage tax codes—only here the protected asset is family life, not corporate profit.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025

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