individual

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Under federal tax-exempt organization law, he said, the “private benefit doctrine” governs whether a nonprofit’s overall activities unduly benefit any single individual — including through indirect payments to entities they own.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Wendy’s shares have climbed around 18% since Tuesday, when another poster, ElegantCombination43, issued a call-to-arms on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum to other individual investors: “We need to save Wendy’s before it’s too late.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

One of Wall Street’s most foundational modern beliefs is that the stock market is a cold, calculating machine that assigns values to individual securities with a high degree of precision.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

This technology allowed the team to isolate the nucleus of individual cells within tumor tissue and determine which genes were active in each cell.

From Science Daily • Jun. 25, 2026

Although I still planned on winning first place at the science fair this year, we pinky swore we’d help each other with our individual projects.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas