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corporation

[kawr-puh-ray-shuhn] / ˌkɔr pəˈreɪ ʃən /


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Audiences will continue to be served by BBC Scotland's wider news offering, including Reporting Scotland, The Sunday Show, Radio Scotland Breakfast, Debate Night and Scotscast, the corporation said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Rather than a conventional nonprofit, the fund will be a company-owned limited liability corporation, a setup that Anthropic says allows different kinds of giving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

In its second-ever earnings report as a public corporation, the world’s largest rocket company and satellite-internet provider had a lot to say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Her announcement came weeks after media corporation Paramount Skydance formally took over Warner Bros.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Chicago promptly established a formal corporation, the World’s Columbian Exposition Company, to finance and build the fair.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Roy has promised to keep more Angelenos housed and protect their livelihoods through “affirmative litigation” — suits brought against slumlords and exploitative corporations under the state’s Unfair Competition Law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

This case was "about whether corporations can mislead consumers about what happens to their personal information without facing meaningful consequences. New Mexico stood its ground," Torrez said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

“I think all of American corporations is looking at their bills from Anthropic and OpenAI and going, ‘OK, we need to think about how to make sure we’re getting productivity out of this.’

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

While corporations and private equity are taking an increased interest in the business, the vast majority of laundromats remain mom-and-pop enterprises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

I polled about half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list—the list of the largest corporations in the United States—asking each company questions about its CEO.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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