How to Use subsidize in a Sentence
subsidize
verb- The state subsidizes housing for low-income families.
- She feels that private businesses should not be subsidized by taxpayers.
- The company subsidizes health insurance for its employees.
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The rate is $50 per child, per day, but the city subsidizes $25.
—Sorell Grow, Indianapolis Star, 25 Mar. 2020
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Some of the revenue helps subsidize the cost of living in St. Paul.
—Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
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At the time, the two studio projects teamed up to lobby for the bill, which would have subsidized both.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
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Wesson says the plan would be to charge a fee to use the kitchen, and those dollars would subsidize the market.
—Sujata Dand, Dallas News, 6 May 2021
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The 22 percent service fee is, in a way, asking the customer to subsidize some of the costs, Flay says.
—Kturnqui, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
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Borges was on one side of the fight to subsidize nuclear plants in House Bill 6.
—Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 18 May 2021
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The top 16 or 20 football programs subsidize the rest of the Power Four schools.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
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The city continues to pursue grants and loans to help subsidize the project.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
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Don’t come to me and ask me to help subsidize your profit margin.
—Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
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The bill requires nearly all electric customers in the state to subsidize the coal plants.
—Mark Gillispie and Julie Carr Smyth, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
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But the taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize it.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 17 July 2025
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Some of those funds have been used to subsidize electric trucks and chargers.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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All proceeds from the Store and Café are used to subsidize the Community as a whole.
—Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2020
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The city plans to subsidize the project built on land known as the Jacksonville Shipyards with more than $100 million in tax dollars.
—Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021
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Russia is now left to look for other means to help subsidize launch costs.
—NBC News, 14 May 2021
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Milton Friedman had an idea 20 years ago: Tax the schools rather than subsidize them.
—Richard Vedder, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
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Of course, the United States doesn’t spend a dollar to subsidize Canada.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
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Curls said that as the city subsidizes projects in some places, other areas seem to be left behind.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 11 Jan. 2025
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Amount the French government will subsidize the purchase of a new EV.
—Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 5 July 2023
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The state of Ohio is crafting an incentive package to help subsidize the project.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
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The state is supposed to subsidize imports, but the crisis has strained that system, too.
—BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
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Many homes use Medicare payments for post-acute short-term care to cross-subsidize their long-term beds.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2020
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The solutions should be not to subsidize what has always been done.
—Steven Zeitchik, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
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But to my mind the simplest solution here is the best: If some jobs don’t pay enough, subsidize higher wages.
—Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
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All of them are excused, most of them applauded, many of them subsidized.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 6 May 2024
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But here’s the difference: those programs are not subsidized by taxpayers.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 30 July 2025
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The $1 billion school voucher proposals would subsidize private school tuition and some homeschooling costs with public money.
—Lily Kepner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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