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unhedged

  • a word derived from hedge.
    hedge
    noun
    a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow.

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The airline warned that its results for the year will be "highly sensitive" to external factors such as conflict escalation in the Middle East and Ukraine as well as the price of unhedged jet fuel.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In other words, you might not make as much as the unhedged S&P on a good day, but you lose a lot less on its worst days.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Lufthansa will further cut capacity by five aircraft in the 2026-27 winter season to reduce unhedged fuel purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Treasurys because they can diversify against the yen, which is the weakest of the G-10 currencies on an unhedged basis, according to Chandler.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025

Any adversary who is unscrupulous enough to give the least charitable reading to an unhedged statement will find an opening to attack the writer in a thicket of hedged ones anyway.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker