vesting

present participle of vest
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vesting The Boston Red Sox recently signed Aroldis Chapman to a one-year, $13 million extension, which also includes a mutual vesting option for 2027. Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 For another recent client, the board’s questions about his employer’s stock vesting schedule had Bari, the client, his agent, and the listing agent go through four rounds of revisions to ensure their response nailed a just-right level of obsequiousness. Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025 The warrants are priced at fair market value on the date of vesting and amortized over 10 years. Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2025 These options are vesting right along the way. Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vesting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vesting
Verb
  • The ability to now see how lithium interacts with the plasma in real-time is a significant step toward advancing this critical enabling technology.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The Battle Of Long Island (or Battle of Brooklyn, as it was also known) was won by the British, enabling them to capture the island and New York City.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Interspliced are shots of him hauling up oyster cages, sliding a knife into an oyster to shuck it, handing a fresh oyster to a little girl.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Companies are essentially handing leaders technical training and telling them to figure it out.
    Heather Conklin, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In addition, the house includes two parking spots, granting ample parking space for two vehicles.
    Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The labels have for the most part taken a cautiously experimental approach to AI music in the past several years, granting licenses to a few companies to create tools like AI voice clones or music generators, but suing several developers who didn’t get licenses for their models.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Paoletta signed off on a memo authorizing the freeze.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Employees with administrative privileges were often tricked into authorizing malicious apps, while default permission settings allowed those apps to operate undetected.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Eleven of 19 batters struck out against Glasnow and hard-throwing Milwaukee rookie Jacob Misiorowski in the third, fourth and fifth innings with just one baserunner (on a walk), leaving the game locked in a 1-1 tie until the Dodgers put something together in the sixth.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And then the project fell apart, leaving Shackleton with fragments of the unfinished film and time to ruminate on shortcuts and signifiers of the ubiquitous genre.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most people who acquire type 1 diabetes have at least one of two specific-risk-conferring gene variants, or alleles, in this region.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The organization’s board considered reinstating her in May, according to a letter from board Chairman James Holton, who resigned in protest after conferring with an attorney.
    Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hegseth went on to announce an understated but crucially important set of changes aimed at empowering hard-nosed leaders – and giving them chances to learn from their failures.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • There’s something empowering about going to the movies alone.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another new law, SB312, implements a requirement that dogs imported into the state for the purpose of selling or transferring ownership have a health certification completed by a veterinarian dated no more than ten days prior to arrival in California.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Murphy passed for 5,436 yards and 85 TDs at Austin Regents during his freshman and sophomore years before transferring to Liberty Christian to begin the 2024 season.
    Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Vesting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vesting. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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