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the act or process of giving out something to each member of a group
the issuance of an instruction sheet to each member of the class
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Recent Examples of issuances
That type of performance might whet the appetites of public market investors, who have not seen many new issuances of technology companies with high growth rates.
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Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
Of that, $90 million is being funded by the district’s bond issuances.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
The move followed issuances of $750 million and $1 billion worth of green bonds in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
—Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
Those bond issuances add up to around $1 billion, according to a 2024 Commerce report.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
Total local government debt has ballooned to $18 trillion due to dampened property sales, and local bond issuances hit a record high for the year.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 3 Dec. 2025
However, today’s debt burden will make borrowing more expensive and potentially raise the interest rates on new bond issuances, costing taxpayers even more.
—Mariana Trujillo, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
News outlets have reported disruptions to banking services, hospitals, businesses, government offices, news organizations, education, airports, and visa issuances in a country of roughly 43 million people.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
What Sooknanan did not do was rule the travel ban unlawful overall, meaning the restrictions on visa issuances remain in effect, pending any other lawsuits the administration may face.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
Of that, $90 million is being funded by the district’s bond issuances.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
The move followed issuances of $750 million and $1 billion worth of green bonds in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
—Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 19 Jan. 2026
Those bond issuances add up to around $1 billion, according to a 2024 Commerce report.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
Total local government debt has ballooned to $18 trillion due to dampened property sales, and local bond issuances hit a record high for the year.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 3 Dec. 2025
However, today’s debt burden will make borrowing more expensive and potentially raise the interest rates on new bond issuances, costing taxpayers even more.
—Mariana Trujillo, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
News outlets have reported disruptions to banking services, hospitals, businesses, government offices, news organizations, education, airports, and visa issuances in a country of roughly 43 million people.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
What Sooknanan did not do was rule the travel ban unlawful overall, meaning the restrictions on visa issuances remain in effect, pending any other lawsuits the administration may face.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for issuances
Noun
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Inherited Roth account distributions aren’t taxed as long as the account has been open at least five years.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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Its components can be rearranged to model different limb lengths, weight distributions and joint ranges of motion.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The community’s prolific turnout at sporting events in the region is well known, with basketball games in Qatar sometimes limiting allocations for Filipino fans to avoid home advantage from being lost.—
James Hansen,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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The camp had no sanitation system, no barracks, no clothing allocations, and scant rations distributed uncooked to men without pans or utensils or firewood.—
Drew Gilpin Faust,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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