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Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

The group’s longtime leader, Carol Schatz, told the City Council at a public hearing that the city was mortgaging its future in a “misguided attempt to buy temporary peace with activists.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

The Ford contract would reverse concessions the union agreed to in a series of contracts since 2007, when GM and the former Chrysler were skidding toward bankruptcy, and Ford was mortgaging assets to stay afloat.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023

So the Halos loaded up in an attempt to win the pennant and woo the Japanese pitcher/designated hitter — mortgaging prospects galore for position players such as Eduardo Escobar, Mike Moustakas, C.J.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family’s rice fields around the Ayemenem House.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy