Example Sentences

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Investors have yanked more than $11 billion out of private-credit funds during the past two quarters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Investors have yanked roughly a net $1 billion from the funds in the past week alone, according to FactSet.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

Investors have yanked $70 billion from emerging market bond funds so far in 2022 , according to data from JPMorgan, which pegs year-end outflows at $80 billion.

From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2022

Conception and family planning typically occupy a weird zone between the personal and the universal, but Rachel and Richard’s long-term struggles have yanked away any semblance of privacy.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2018

I ought not to have yanked you down that way, but I didn’t know.”

From The Battleship Boys at Sea Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Patchin, Frank Gee