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as in financing
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 subsidizing
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 funding
Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2026
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is removing funding for its citizens to study in the United Kingdom, citing concerns they could be radicalized abroad.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 10 Jan. 2026
The states sought a temporary restraining order, asking the court to block the funding freeze and the administration’s demands for large volumes of administrative data.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
The state has awarded Sacramento about $172 million in HHAP funding in total, according to California Department of Housing and Community Development data.
—Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 10 Jan. 2026
Other Democrats want to restrict the funding for her department, whose budget was vastly increased as part of the Republicans' sweeping tax and spending bill passed last summer.
—CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
Both moves drew condemnation from scientists, but that news was quickly overwhelmed by concern about a government shutdown and continuing science funding cuts and layoffs.
—Gary W. Yohe, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2026
The funding would be applied to a new domed stadium along with a nearby training facility in suburban Olathe, Kansas.
—Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
The funding also positions the startup in a major role in the future of energy storage for EVs.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
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The city of Aurora wouldn’t be providing funding through the program and generally wouldn’t have much involvement in it, Lindburg said.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
Instead of pursuing new initiatives, the Newsom administration plans to continue funding education and climate programs that Department of Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw said were already successfully serving the state’s population.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
The proposal does not include any new money for the state’s main program for funding local homelessness efforts.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
For the state’s community college system of 116 campuses — the largest in the country — the budget proposal increases funding by about 9%.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
About three-quarters of the workers there remain, according to the data, but since last February many of them have been told to halt their job functions, and the administration has fought in court to stop funding the agency altogether.
—Emily Badger, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
The biggest obstacle to moving the initiative forward is funding.
—Kristin Larson, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
But now, as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches its fourth anniversary, Orbán is under increasing pressure from Brussels and Washington to end Hungary's reliance on Russian oil, a resource seen as critical for funding Moscow's war.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
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In order to bring the Chiefs to Johnson County, Kansas plans to fund up to $975 million for the new facilities in Olathe via a controversial funding tool called sales tax and revenue, or STAR bonds.
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Surgeons could sell their unpaid medical bills to Blake or one of his medical funding company contacts for 20 percent of the face value.
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Halbrook said the taxpayer spending on non-citizen subsidies from the state and the Guard isn’t necessary.—
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The $175 million arena project is spearheaded by Joshua Wood — a Rancho Cordova resident who advocated for subsidies to build Golden 1 Center, and identical twin brother of Sacramento State President Luke Wood — and his business partner, Charanjeet Kaur Tiwana-Purewal.—
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Among its many funding programmes, the agency has an international co-production fund, Taiwan International Co-funding Program (TICP), that in its early days was involved in co-financing a wide range of Asian and European arthouse films.—
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Brazil is set to introduce an ambitious and innovative new system for financing forest protection (more on that below) and Lula comes into COP30 with an impressive record of successful forest protection.—
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If Beijing now doubles down on subsidizing both cutting-edge and traditional industries, the result could be an even greater glut of Chinese products globally, exacerbating trade frictions.—
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In subsequent years, Congress has continued to shape where Americans live, in part by subsidizing flood insurance, electricity rates and development.—
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Consider Brazil, Canada and the United States — three large continental countries with long coastlines, deep interiors and abundant endowments of natural resources, including those for agriculture, mining, energy and forestry.—
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The interim endowment is the largest one-time appropriation for a water project in state history.—
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For over two decades, her father has been trying to do just that with the help of his brother, who is a citizen, through his I-130 sponsorship, also called a family petition.—
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The hosts talk about how the saga shows the other side of sports sponsorships.—
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“Funding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funding. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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