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As of the fourth quarter, U.S. banks were lending around $380 billion to so-called business-credit intermediaries, which include the kind of private-credit funds facing redemption requests, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Ms. Lawrence, who had always been her husband’s right-hand woman, pitched in, and soon their two daughters were lending a hand as well.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

She posted descriptions and images of lost pets, retweeted information about veterinarians and shelters that were lending a hand, and shared updates when the animals were reunited with their families.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2022

They also had help from dozens of beachgoers who were lending a hand to try to save the whales.

From Washington Times • Jul. 24, 2019

At the very time that they were striving to emancipate themselves from papal control in temporal matters, they were lending the Church all their strength to punish heresy and schism.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness