How to Use quasi-public in a Sentence

quasi-public

adjective
  • Since then, at least 11 cities have passed ordinances agreeing to work with the quasi-public agency.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
  • Critics question whether the bank plays a quasi-public role that lends itself to a growing number of stakeholders.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 3 May 2023
  • The group has been criticized for taking a quasi-public stance — taking pains to keep its members anonymous for fear of losing their jobs — against their bosses.
    — Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Pasteur Institutes therefore function as quasi-public goods providers.
    — Guy Vernet, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
  • And maybe a new quasi-public authority could be created to oversee these and other harbor resiliency projects.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • But federal agents have made arrests in quasi-public spaces of private businesses, such as the parking lot of a Target.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Its quasi-public status also means Massport is in on the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes deal with both Boston and Winthrop.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Two of the quasi-public piers are currently permitted by the port for private dock use by three different upland homeowners, public records show.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The lawsuit describes it as a quasi-public project that required at least 30 percent of subcontractors to be owned by women or minorities.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 25 June 2023
  • The spokesperson declined to elaborate on why Ryckman was chosen or how the team views his role as a voting member of the quasi-public sports authority.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Nonprofit or quasi-public green banks are in operation in several of Kentucky's neighboring states.
    — Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Under Colorado law, unions can’t force quasi-public employers to recognize them by holding an election in the same way that people working for a private company can.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Missouri also argued that the quasi-public state agency that administers federal student loans and state scholarships would lose revenue under the program.
    — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Then, in 2006, Garten persuaded a neighbor to sell her an adjoining empty field, which is now the site of the barn, a quasi-public workplace on the grounds of her private life.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Other countries, notably Canada, have spun off their systems to private or quasi-public operators, with some productivity gains.
    — Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The entity was created as a part of Oakland County government years ago, but recently spun off as an independent, quasi-public agency.
    — Dave Boucher, Freep.com, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Her administration is exploring setting up programs to help affected businesses with help from quasi-public agencies like MassTech.
    — Steph Solis, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Six irrigation districts — quasi-public corporations — divert the water to green up the properties of about 7,500 landowners in one of the state’s driest regions.
    — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • Some of the agencies already do so, but Tarr’s proposal would require such disclosure from all quasi-public agencies and would establish a dashboard where people could see where their tax dollars are going and view audits of the agencies.
    — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 27 May 2025
  • FilmLA, the quasi-public agency that handles film permits in Los Angeles, has reported a weak third quarter for 2024.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Carrillo added that a strategic plan could benefit the area’s development, as Bastrop County’s infrastructure is comprised of a mix of public, private and quasi-public utility providers.
    — Aaron Sullivan, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Even some public beaches are actually quasi-public, requiring costly annual or daily admission fees and limiting access to municipal residents.
    — Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
  • Freimuth, who heads the quasi-public state agency, said two of his biggest concerns in Hartford are the future of the Aetna campus and Constitution Plaza, much of which is mired in foreclosure and receivership.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Many Cubans say, with reason, that the revenues of GAESA, as well as other quasi-public entities, insulate the elite from the hardships of life in Cuba.
    — Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 9 July 2026
  • Baltimore County will be able to acquire private land for redevelopment after local officials passed legislation to create a quasi-public vehicle aimed at revitalizing the west side of the county.
    — Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2023
  • This is a full-on collision between the rights of government and these quasi-public associations that have been around for 50 years and provide a valuable service, working to keep our streets safer and cleaner so New Yorkers can shop comfortably.
    — Peter Madonia, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
  • These quasi-public entities—under government conservatorship since the subprime-mortgage meltdown—have congressional charters obligating them to benefit low-income households.
    — Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Most employers purchase insurance either from private insurers or from the quasi-public State Compensation Insurance Fund to cover employee claims.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • Once completed, the practice facility will be owned by a quasi-public Kansas Sports Facilities Authority, meaning the team is not expected to pay property taxes on the state-of-the-art complex.
    — Matthew Kelly july 17, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026
  • Among smaller allocations was $2 million for CT Next, a quasi-public agency that was created in 2015 to foster startup businesses in Connecticut.
    — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2026

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