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Example sentences from the Web for hedging The plaque honoring “la Nueve” speaks to how memory is often overlaid by the hedging of history.
Who Liberated Paris in August 1944? | | August 24, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Netanyahu has been eager to take credit for Iran's hedging of its stockpiles.
What Obama Said About Iran | Ali Gharib| March 22, 2013| DAILY BEAST
Karl Rove says Romney has the edge in the overall vote on Election Day and in his hedging way seemed to predict a Romney triumph.
Mitt Romney’s Delusions of Victory | Matt Latimer| November 3, 2012| DAILY BEAST
The entire phylum of what they do is called “hedging risk,” not diving into it.
Jack Hitt Examines Why Amateurs Are the Job Creators | Jack Hitt| June 9, 2012| DAILY BEAST
The death of an uncle and a hedging competition are processed and recounted in due course.
The Duchess Tells All | Chloë Schama| November 25, 2010| DAILY BEAST
But as for that, signore, if you have no axes nor hedging knives, we have them.
Corleone | F. Marion Crawford
You see, by hedging like that, you're bound to pull off something!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 12, 1892 | Various
Hedging against such contingents, Pierre had decided not to return to Bombay.
Oswald Langdon | Carson Jay Lee
Hedging the cinder trail were high, untrimmed bushes which completely screened her view.
Whispering Walls | Mildred A. Wirt
How to protect the gain, or minimize the loss, is described in the two hedging positions which we now discuss.
About sugar buying for Jobbers | B. W. Dyer
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Words related to hedging sidestep, fudge, waffle, pussyfoot, shuffle, temporize, equivocate, stonewall, tergiversate, evade, prevaricate, stall, flip-flop, quibble, duck, shuck, jive, cage, hinder, coop
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The practice by which a business or investor limits risk by taking positions that tend to offset each other. For example, a business stands to lose money if the price of a commodity it holds declines, but it can offset this risk by agreeing to sell a specified amount of the commodity at a set price at some point in the future.
notes for hedging Hedge funds, which are investment funds usually open only to the very wealthy, grew in the 1990s. The near failure of one such fund in 1998, Long-Term Capital Management, sent shock waves through Wall Street.
Words nearby hedging hedge one's bets, hedger, hedgerow, hedge-school, hedge sparrow, hedging , hedgy, Hedin, Hedjaz, hedonic, hedonic calculus
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