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corporations

  • plural
    of corporation.
    corporation
    noun
    an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.

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Efforts to refine the lacklustre Cali Fund -- a UN mechanism for sharing profits from corporations that use genetic data from plants and other organisms -- have also proved difficult.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Daniels saw mostly higher rents, crowded public services, traffic, and happy corporations: Where was the benefit in that?

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Eventually, the complaints became sufficiently widespread that Instacart did what corporations increasingly do when confronted with an inconvenient internet phenomenon: It made the phenomenon into an advertisement.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

“If you’re gonna sacrifice all your time, slaving away working for big corporations and stuff like that, you should at least be able to, you know, buy a candy bar or something.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson