annuities

plural of annuity
as in subsidies
a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal action his grandfather's will provided him with an annuity of $5,000 a year to be used for school expenses

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Recent Examples of annuities The firm runs the same living-money logic across whole life, term, mortgage protection, final expense, annuities, Roth conversion planning, and estate planning. Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 Use Form 1099-R to report distributions from retirement plans, pensions, annuities, and individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026 Other types of annuities could work as well, according to Warshawsky. Lorie Konish, CNBC, 29 July 2026 Life insurance and annuities technology platform Zinnia selected Key Kiarie as its new chief financial officer. Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026 Just 22% of California households are receiving retirement income, such as pensions, annuities or retirement account distributions, the analysis found. Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026 Non-qualified annuities Annuities can provide you with valuable retirement income, but not all annuities receive identical legal protections. Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 12 June 2026
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Noun
  • Quantifying the cost of disruptions — from fuel subsidies and emergency imports to lost output and idle workers — would make the case for resilience more tangible.
    Nana Menya Ayensu, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Those companies currently operate the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets, which have proven reliable but are only marginally competitive, even with the assistance of government subsidies.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That organization awards grants to reduce poverty, stop injustice, and advance human welfare and has awarded about $4 billion across thousands of grants.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
  • In April 2026, the Treasury Department announced plans to revise Form 990 reporting to increase transparency around government grants and contracts.
    Brian Peckrill, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Some addicts learned to game the system by obtaining daily allotments of hydromorphone pills—15 or more a day was typical—and then selling them to dealers in exchange for stronger fentanyl concoctions.
    Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • These phones have different sizes and shapes, different memory and storage allotments, and different camera systems.
    Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 24 July 2026

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“Annuities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annuities. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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