How to Use vested in a Sentence
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As a vested veteran, Brown did not have to pass through waivers.
— Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 31 Aug. 2022 -
The payouts the following year were larger and the most vested artists from those pools received as much as $6,000 each.
— New York Times, 27 July 2021 -
But the people knocked over this past week were not wealthy, vested interests.
— Kirk W. Johnson, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2017 -
What to make of the big business Covid-19 has become, with its vested interests?
— New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021 -
And agents do have a vested interest in raising the issue.
— Julie Appleby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024 -
Elsewhere around France, thousands of red-vested union activists marched through cities from Marseille on the Mediterranean to Lille in the north.
— USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019 -
Failure to abide by that rule would put their vested equity at risk.
— Solcyré Burga, TIME, 4 June 2024 -
Duolingo said about half of its workforce of roughly 400 own vested shares.
— Nina Trentmann, WSJ, 29 July 2021 -
This vested interest is why Porsche decided to keep the manual alive from the get-go with the 992 GT3.
— Steven Ewing, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023 -
If the stock price exceeds $25 on the open market, the CEO can exercise the vested shares, sell them on the market and pocket the difference.
— George Erb, The Seattle Times, 15 July 2017 -
For Cristina there’s a group of vested interests which work in the shadows to their benefit and at the expense of the people.
— Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 3 June 2022 -
About a half hour into the walk, one driver notices the yellow-vested faith walkers and taps four honks of approval.
— Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 20 May 2018 -
If this is true, then faith leaders with a vested stake in their religion's longevity have cause to rejoice.
— Lauren Jackson, CNN, 20 Sep. 2017 -
Gustin is the other vested veteran of the group, having spent time on the Cleveland Browns’ active roster each of the past three seasons.
— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022 -
This is the fifth season of the NET and would suggest teams fighting for their tournament lives would have a vested interest in the rating.
— Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023 -
As green-vested parks and recreation staff moved in with plastic garbage bags and heavy trucks, Currie prepared herself and others to move.
— Paula Dobbyn, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2020 -
So, there were so many vested interests, not to mention that the ferry was owned by the Spreckels company, as well.
— Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024 -
This is why the state is showing a vested interest in training teachers for these early grades.
— Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 5 June 2024 -
That could have meant putting up over $30 billion of his own cash––the most likely fount, of course, was selling and margining Tesla shares and vested options.
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 May 2022 -
But there are lots of vested interests to stand up to, including some of the most formidable.
— Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021 -
Then in April, the agency began a crackdown in which police and yellow-vested managers swarm the downtown stations at dawn, then stand at the fare gates for hours.
— Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2019 -
The end result may be a regulation some group with a vested interest doesn’t like.
— Washington Post, 9 July 2024 -
But the bank could also be another potential ally in the north, with a vested interest in Jon Snow's cause as well.
— Matt Miller, Esquire, 18 Aug. 2017 -
Ginn is a vested veteran, so the Bears are not going to cut him and have to pay him termination pay — the remainder of his base salary for this season.
— Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020 -
There seems to be a vested interest in maintaining the apathy of our young people.
— Holly Jones, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024 -
Employees will remain vested in the rewards until the chain gets acquired.
— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021 -
That includes vested stock awards and cashed in stock options—essentially, the actual worth of the stocks that (largely) account for a CEO’s pay.
— Chloe Berger, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022 -
As a vested veteran, Brown will be guaranteed this year’s salary of more than $14 million in the form of termination pay.
— Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019 -
If Germany prospered, payments would rise, giving the Allies a vested interest in building up the country’s economy.
— Cyrus Veeser / Made By History, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024 -
Funding has been difficult to obtain due to concerns about safety and vested interests in protecting popular transit solutions, such as the diesel train market.
— Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
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