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Franklin Roosevelt had repudiated the so-called gold clauses in private and government bond indentures, aware that upholding payment in gold would have provoked widespread bankruptcies and devastated the federal budget.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2023

The bonds themselves have been issued with a mix of terms and indentures.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2022

Myrra Dal is a contract worker, one of thousands of people serving out indentures signed by their great-grandparents in exchange for passage off a dying Earth.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021

Without radical change, all of our choices at home and as a nation will be increasingly driven by servicing these indentures from which there will be no redemption.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2020

After breakfast, Joe brought out my indentures from the press in the best parlour, and we put them in the fire, and I felt that I was free.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens