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adjective

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Recent Examples of collateral
Noun
Williams, 48, the founder of Cash Money records, was just sued by the holder of a $12 million loan with the Palm Island house as collateral. Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025 Are my salespeople building their own marketing collateral? Alexander Masters, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
Eligible borrowers Must be in operation for at least five months Loan amounts Up to $250,000 for collateral loans Loan terms Not disclosed [ Return to summary ] National Funding National Funding funds a variety of industries, including agriculture, beauty, wellness, restaurants and more. Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2025 Secured loans may require additional verification steps, such as collateral appraisal or legal documentation, which can delay approval. True Tamplin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for collateral
Recent Examples of Synonyms for collateral
Noun
  • This was agreed to, but Russia's foreign minister has said that the mineral deposits that exist in Ukraine in the east are one reason his country wouldn't withdraw from that area.
    CBS News, CBS News, 4 May 2025
  • While Albanese was criticized for not doing enough to tame rising living costs during his first term, in the years ahead he’s promised a tax cut, cheaper medicines, lower deposits for first-time buyers and 1.2 million houses to ease the housing crisis.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • Despite trillions of dollars at stake, forest destruction—and the corporate role in driving it—is still widely treated as a peripheral issue.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • But after a playoff contender over in the American League suffered a brutal injury setback, the Mets could be looking to offload some of their peripheral talent.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • Anyway, Minnesota has now started down its path to protecting the free speech and related rights through the UPEPA.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • But seven of the instances involved chimpanzees providing care to others, and in four of those cases, the animals weren’t closely related.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • This article has been updated with additional information.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • Notre Dame would have a manageable pathway to one of the at-large bids, leaving two for additional teams from the power leagues.
    Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Also, by this time, waterbed owners and prospective buyers were fully aware of the associated issues.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2025
  • That assessment might need to change following the release of a new tool that can directly disable Windows Defender and its associated protections on Windows.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Here’s the really good news among the bad critical vulnerability disclosure stuff: there is no patch to install, no updates to deploy, and no action required by the user at all.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • The audience load-in playlist for my Baby J Tour was a lot of Delfonics, Spinners, Thom Bell-adjacent stuff.
    Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Now, with access to Sherpa guides, porters, supplemental oxygen and top-of-the-range equipment, the mountain is far more accessible to hobbyists and tourists.
    Amy Woodyatt, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
  • Giving a killer robot killer cheekbones and killer abs, but repeatedly showing us his Ken doll-style absence of genitals, becomes a peculiar piece of world-building that even supplemental dialogue can’t fix.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Accompanying the photos is an installation of contemporaneous ephemera, as well as excerpts of cinema verité-style footage of the band recorded by filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, who were granted access to document the group during their first U.S. visit in February 1964.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • There were no contemporaneous accounts written by Omanis, or written in Arabic, that recorded with such specificity the life and times of Omani tribespeople of that time.
    Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Collateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collateral. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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