Example Sentences

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In other words, the businesses were insuring the bank against interest rate falls.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2015

None of the sellers appeared to care very much which bonds they were insuring.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2011

Thus, all the time that the wretches were under the idea that their crime was unknown, and themselves unsuspected, they were insuring the means of their own detection and capture.

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