How to Use corporation in a Sentence

corporation

noun
  • He works as a consultant for several large corporations.
  • Bonds are essentially loans made by investors to corporations or governments.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • When shareholders for most of the nation’s biggest corporations are on record saying their chief executives are overpaid, maybe that will get the boardrooms’ attention.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And some of those corporations took a sales hit during the furor.
    Sarah Kate Ellis, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The group says more than two dozen major corporations and brands have signed the pledge.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • What’s underway is a messy fight for the soul of the corporation.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Who will take over the troubled corporation that just helped put a fascist in the Oval Office?
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Co-CEOs are a rare occurrence among large corporations, and many that tried the idea have since abandoned it.
    Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2024
  • The company ran the colony for two centuries and was the first corporation anywhere to have tradable stock.
    Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Proponents of the new law say fast-food corporations can afford to pay up.
    Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The corporation wished to convey it wouldn’t bow to outside pressure.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Congress needs a complete do-over to take away the power from the corporations and the billionaires in this country and put it into the hands of the public.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • Over the last decade, Braswell has helped corporations recruit and hire diverse talent.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The budget, released Tuesday, aims to pay for those tax breaks by raising taxes on corporations and the rich.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But more can be done by raising taxes on the largest, most profitable corporations.
    Rakeen Mabud, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Brands and corporations that ignore this fact may risk limiting their growth prospect today and for years to come.
    Isaac Mizrahi, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Half of all large corporations paid no corporate tax at all.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • In this case, however, the villain wasn’t a greedy corporation.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But perhaps one of the most galling things about these corporations is how many of them are using our taxpayer dollars to add to these CEOs’ kitties.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • This is a trivial sum for a railroad corporation posting profits in the billions each year.
    Pete Buttigieg, TIME, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Likewise, the audit rate on large corporations fell by more than 50% over that same period.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There are a lot of corporations that aren't Black-owned, are using this fund, and have high valuations of billions of dollars.
    Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • But these models are simply too valuable for the corporations spending billions of dollars on them to freeze progress.
    Markus Anderljung and Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
  • For too long, a handful of corporations have played puppet masters.
    Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • This is the result of profit-seeking corporations’ takeover of most of our health care system during recent decades.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Many corporations took the first step two years ago in pledging support for reproductive health care.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • In general, the act delivered tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy estimated to be worth more than $1.5 trillion over 10 years.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Bumbling male employees chase her through the corporation’s drab cubicles, attempting to put her back in the box.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 July 2023
  • Major corporations such as FedEx and AutoZone are based there and the state boasts a thriving auto assembly hub.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
  • To his point, U.S. non-financial corporations currently had a record $13.7 trillion in debt in the first quarter of this year, according to Fed data.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2024

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