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sinking funds

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plural of sinking fund

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To honor that, his family has spent the past 25 years helping people like Ray did, by establishing scholarship funds and through charitable endeavors, including an annual 5K Father’s Day run in his honor.

— Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
The dress was auctioned off in June 1997, when the princess sold 79 of her dresses at auction to raise funds for charity.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2026

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The eye-popping gains of Nvidia, Micron, Alphabet and other AI stocks have helped inflate the net worths of millions of Americans by lifting the value of their retirement nest eggs, college savings plans and brokerage accounts.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Some investors worry how such a giant company losing so much money could affect their nest eggs, but most analysts say don't worry.

— Medora Lee, USA Today, 12 June 2026

Definition of nest eggs

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Institutions most active with open finance are seeing measurable lift across revenue, retention, cross-sell conversion and customer deposits.

— Jess Turner, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
On the flip side, higher interest rates also mean savers may earn more money on their deposits.

— Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

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In this exclusive excerpt, Austin discusses her decision to part with everything, and the process of combing through the home and finding the treasures Mercury left behind.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2026
Clark had recently purchased her dream home, built in 1900, so her aunt Jan saw the perfect destination for some of the special and otherwise unclaimed treasures.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

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