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Recent Examples of ancillary
But campaign finance rules require campaigns to pay the fair market value for the ancillary costs of holding events — everything from staging to the band to food and drink.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 19 May 2025
Gillis, meanwhile, became golf’s newest ancillary character.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 May 2025
After placing the emphasis of her hype on Wicked just a year ago, Langley called out SNL’s recent 50th anniversary special and the many ancillary programs around it.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
Real estate values could drop, and all the ancillary services related to real estate will be impacted as well.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 19 May 2025
Gillis, meanwhile, became golf’s newest ancillary character.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 May 2025
After placing the emphasis of her hype on Wicked just a year ago, Langley called out SNL’s recent 50th anniversary special and the many ancillary programs around it.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
Real estate values could drop, and all the ancillary services related to real estate will be impacted as well.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancillary
Adjective
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Venture secondary specialists confirm that secondary prints have tightened from 60 percent discounts to low double-digits on marquee names.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Project Emery took a blow as playing Europa League football next season was a secondary target.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Since its publication in 1915, the poem has been adopted by the American Legion and its auxiliary, and the poppy has become the official flower to memorialize the fallen.—
Anita Gosch,
Oc Register,
1 June 2025
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Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County in Northern Virginia, was convicted in December on charges related to his acceptance of more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for auxiliary deputy sheriff appointments.—
Annabella Rosciglione,
The Washington Examiner,
26 May 2025
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The 6th Ranger Training Battalion belongs to the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade which is a subordinate brigade of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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The company kept the HBO brand, of course, as subordinate under the Max umbrella.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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The designer is on a collaborative streak: Last week, WWD announced that the designer is set to partner with H&M’s subsidiary brand & Other Stories on a collection that will drop online and in stores in May.—
Violet Goldstone,
Footwear News,
7 Apr. 2025
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Only pilots, flight dispatchers, and flight attendants at subsidiary regional carrier Endeavor Air are union members.—
Ted Reed,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Five years after the pandemic, successful retailers are using data to develop the business equivalent of peripheral vision.—
Greg Petro,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Rieder has also recently been adding European sovereign bonds from Germany, as well as some peripheral sovereigns such as France, Ireland, Spain and Italy.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
19 May 2025
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And this past week, The Financial Times reported that regulators were preparing to announce within months a reduction in the supplementary leverage ratio, a backstop safety measure adopted in 2014.—
Peter Coy,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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But in an fMRI machine, her brain looked surprisingly active: When she was asked to imagine playing tennis, blood flowed to her brain’s supplementary motor area, a region that helps coordinate movement.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2025
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According to a Berkeley Research Group report, 89% of fast-food employers reduced employee hours, 35% cut supplemental benefits, and food prices jumped by nearly 15%.—
Bob Rauch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2025
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Earlier this year, legislators passed emergency legislation to provide $40 million in supplemental aid this fiscal year to local schools to offset what many called a crisis in special education.—
Jessika Harkay,
Hartford Courant,
22 May 2025
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Still, based on consensus estimates, the company's sales are projected to reach $23.4 billion in 2026, representing a marginal decline from the $23.6 billion recorded last year.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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With the large tourist population supplying a significant portion of state tax revenue therefore meaning likely marginal sales tax savings for Floridians, voters favor property tax reform over sales tax cuts.—
Robert McClure III,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2025
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“Ancillary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancillary. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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