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The fund’s nonaccrual loans rose to 5.5% of total investments at amortized costs as of end-December, one of the highest among rated business-development companies, says Moody’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Netflix, Warner, and Paramount amortized around $40 billion worth of content in the past 12 months, much of it on flops.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

The costs have been amortized over decades and proved to be totally worth the effort.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

It’s essentially the way hotels price, where any of their fixed costs are amortized across their nightly rate.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2023

The capital sunk in the huge plants which supplied the belligerents represented, at $150,000,000, an outlay amortized or included in the price at which the munitions were sold.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)