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But naturally, two-way star Shohei Ohtani’s health is tied up in the answers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
While only about 1,200 of the 13,500 companies in private-equity portfolios are in the software sector, according to PitchBook, they tied up an outsize portion of firms’ capital after many were purchased at lofty valuations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
If your money is tied up in an investment portfolio, how easily could you access it in an emergency?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
It’s all tied up with wider concerns about how top-down governmental controls over internet access will affect adults too.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Diving at five hundred miles per hour, they saw the docks, and tied up there, as the briefers had told them, were four torpedo boats and one bigger patrol ship.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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