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as in financed
to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income
her will funded a new science center for her beloved alma mater
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as in subsidized
to provide money for
Dad advised me to get a job because he wasn't going to fund my social life forever
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Recent Examples of funded
What is supposed to be the best trip ever, funded by R&R, immediately starts to go south.
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Ashley Boucher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
In a small and limited study funded by K Health, Cedars-Sinai researchers compared several hundred diagnosis and treatment recommendations made by AI to those made by physicians.
—Martha Bebinger, NPR, 9 Jan. 2026
The purchase was funded through a combination of county sources, including $2 million from the Advance Land Acquisition capital project, $2 million from the Greenways, Parkland and Open Space capital project, and $500,000 in reforestation funds.
—Caroline Foreback, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
But a powerful space telescope being funded without government assistance still seems like a shift.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2026
The footwear was removed as part of a Rockport Restoration project by Emma Lamport and the team at environmental education organization Beach Academy, funded by Vale Nature Partnership, to help restore rockpools to their natural state by removing unwanted marine litter.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 8 Jan. 2026
Mayor Quinton Lucas went further, suggesting the requirement should not apply at all to facilities funded by the city’s public safety sales tax.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
Those checks were funded through the Defense Department.
—Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
Unlike during the fall's longest-ever shutdown, however, large portions of the government have already been funded through the rest of the fiscal year.
—Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
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The move would be financed utilizing STAR bonds, which would be paid off over 30 years using new state sales tax revenues — and potentially also local taxes — generated within a dedicated district.—
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Secret recordings detailed in the indictment describe how Tricolor leaders financed their business by lying about inventory and their customer base.—
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For decades, blue states had quietly subsidized red ones, in an unspoken exchange that once passed for national unity.—
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Colorado’s Child Care Assistance Program Since the late 1990s, the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program has subsidized the cost of child care for parents and caregivers with lower incomes who are working, searching for work or pursuing education.—
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But only protein is endowed with a special kind of redemptive power.—
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Like a superhero movie set in a small town, Encanto is the story of a Colombian family whose children are endowed with magical abilities.—
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“Funded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funded. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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