How to Use underwriter in a Sentence

underwriter

noun
  • In the case of a direct listing, the underwriters are cut out.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 20 June 2019
  • The underwriter had to finish the project to fulfill a performance bond with the city.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • For this aspect of the project, ambition will be the underwriter, not Wall Street.
    Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The lender is also a top underwriter of the bonds globally.
    David Caleb Mutua, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Yet the energy industry will be the main underwriter of the city’s tourism dreams.
    Randy Diamond, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Barclays withdrew as underwriter for the plan in April, the first of several withdrawals that sank the projects.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Take climate risk, which Lloyd’s underwriters must put a price on.
    Allison Schrager, Quartz, 10 July 2019
  • Leatrice worked as an underwriter for the Travelers for many years.
    courant.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Now there was no underwriter to help pay for repairs, wages and getting crew members home.
    Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Meanwhile, Deutsche can act as an IPO underwriter but not a sponsor.
    Frances Yoon, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2021
  • In 1970, Gary Gygax, a high school dropout, was fired from his job as an insurance underwriter.
    Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
  • BofA will be paid through the proceeds of the bond sale; underwriter fees are estimated at $2.22 per bond.
    Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Since then, business dynamics have changed and the lead underwriter that brought PFA into this project has chosen to leave this deal.
    Morgan Simon, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Over the summer, the city selected a financial advisor, underwriter and law firm to help it with the process.
    Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • For most of the past decade, Citi ranked among the two largest municipal-bond underwriters by volume in the $4 trillion market for state and local debt.
    Heather Gillers, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
  • So far this year, the top 19 underwriters on Chinese domestic IPOs are all mainland firms.
    Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Qatar has also been a major underwriter of Gaza’s economy ever since Hamas seized control of the area, in 2007.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This kind of freedom appeals to Lisa Wickstrom, a mortgage underwriter based in Arizona who now works from around the world with only a suitcase.
    Nerdwallet, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Knapp, when reached by phone Wednesday, said that false information was relayed to her by a West Bend underwriter.
    Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2020
  • Bankers at Goldman Sachs, one of the lead underwriters for the offering, told executives at the company in the spring that their shares could be worth as much as $65 billion.
    New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The United States is the largest underwriter of the organization.
    Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2020
  • According to the resolution, the city is seeking to negotiate the sale of the bonds to one or more underwriters or purchasers.
    Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2019
  • His father was an insurance underwriter, and his mother was a nurse.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Mike is now a senior underwriter for home equity lines of credit.
    M.a.c. Lynch, courant.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Her upper-class upbringing—her father was an underwriter at Lloyd’s of London—had instilled in her a knowledge of art.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Among the other underwriters is Dolce & Gabbana, whose representative at the show’s opening announced that the fashion firm would open a D.C. store this fall.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • Next, those companies and the state tried to finance construction through novel build-lease agreements that later fell through when underwriters got spooked and bailed.
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Swimwear had become big business, and the Catalina company attached itself to the pageant as a major underwriter.
    Amy Argetsinger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The treasurer’s office says the ads are paid for by Bank of America, the senior underwriter for the general obligation bond sale.
    Jon Lender, courant.com, 21 May 2021
  • Ma has worked in the insurance industry as an underwriter and broker.
    Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2021

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