Sample Sentences for
assets
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

assets as in:  it's one of her best assets

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    She's kind, beautiful and athletic, but her quick mind is her rarest asset.
    asset = positive trait
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    Because he left no will, all of your uncle's assets go to you.  (source)
    assets = things of value
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    Nor could any of Alpha Group's assets identify the two perpetrators.  (source)
    assets = spies
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    Her greatest asset was her determination.  (source)
    asset = a positive trait or thing of value
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    Anyone could see that Musharraf was double-dealing, taking American money while still helping the jihadis—"strategic assets," as the ISI calls them.  (source)
    assets = things of value
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    When Walt and Billie suggested that he needed a college degree to attain a fulfilling career, Chris answered that careers were demeaning "twentieth-century inventions," more of a liability than an asset, and that he would do fine without one, thank you.  (source)
    asset = thing of value
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    Although Chicago was rapidly achieving recognition as an industrial and mercantile dynamo, its leading men felt keenly the slander from New York that their city had few cultural assets.  (source)
    assets = things of value
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    Those were all the things he had, but he also had himself. Perpich used to drum that into them, "You are your most valuable asset. Don't forget that. You are the best thing you have."  (source)
    asset = thing of value
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    Gabriel knew this because, in preparation for taking over as chief, he had been devouring briefing books on all current operations and assets.  (source)
    assets = spies
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    ...and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next.  (source)
    asset = something of value
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    But unfortunately the beast is largely immune to our dominance in cyberspace, and we have no human assets in ISIS to speak of.  (source)
    assets = spies
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    My ability to kill at a distance is my greatest asset, but I know I'll have to go right into the thick of things to get that backpack, the one with the number 12 on it that Claudius Templesmith mentioned.  (source)
    asset = positive trait or thing of value
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    I need to polish you up a bit, but your aversion to all things fake might just be your greatest asset here.  (source)
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assets as in:  the company's assets & liabilities

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    The company is worth much more than its reported net assets.
    assets = cash value of things owned
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    He promised he would make his own assets and tax return public.  (source)
    assets = things of financial value
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    He had good reason to be curious since most of his own assets were so heavily mortgaged.  (source)
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    In the coming months, he would declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally declare a total trade embargo.  (source)
    assets = things of financial value
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    The state-owned railroad had once been an asset to the state but now it was a liability and its debts had piled up to the million mark.  (source)
    asset = thing of financial value
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    Lavon also happened to be a skilled financial investigator who singlehandedly had managed to track down millions of dollars' worth of looted Holocaust assets.  (source)
    assets = things of financial value
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    Minnie was an asset now, an acquisition to be warehoused until needed, like cocooned prey.  (source)
    asset = something of financial value
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    On an overlooking hill was the turreted mansion occupied by the company general superintendent, a man sent down by our owners in Ohio to keep an eye on their assets.  (source)
    assets = things of financial value
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    He has one other asset—some property in Sandhamn out in the archipelago.  (source)
    asset = thing of financial value
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    The drunk driver had no assets, and they received no compensation from any insurance company for the loss of the limb.  (source)
    assets = things of financial value
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    The biggest asset was a sawmill and a lumber yard on Highway 21, near Palmyra.  (source)
    asset = thing of financial value
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    Half a world away, in Indonesia, a woman continues to control economic assets that she brought into a marriage.  (source)
    assets = things of financial value
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    Yes, he's a big shot now, and he has to protect his asset—my momma.  (source)
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