as in subsidy
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 annuity
For pre-retirees evaluating approaches like bond ladders, bucket strategies, or annuities, this framework is a reminder that no single product or asset class is a silver bullet.
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Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
Life insurers pay out more than $10 billion annually in life insurance and annuity benefits to Illinois families.
—Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Another option is buying a qualified longevity annuity contract, or QLAC.
—Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
Winner takes home millions of dollars Duran had the choice of a $400,000 annuity over 20 years and a $4.8 million lump sum.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 14 Mar. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2026
Life insurers pay out more than $10 billion annually in life insurance and annuity benefits to Illinois families.
—Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Another option is buying a qualified longevity annuity contract, or QLAC.
—Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
Winner takes home millions of dollars Duran had the choice of a $400,000 annuity over 20 years and a $4.8 million lump sum.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 14 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for annuity
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Last December, Temu owner PDD Holdings—a multinational commerce group domiciled in the Cayman Islands and registered in Ireland that’s better known as Pinduoduo—had two of its global facilities raided by European Union regulators over worries over possible Chinese state subsidies.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
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Demand for EVs in China is slowing after the government trimmed consumer subsidies and perks, and there’s no end in sight to a brutal price war as a crowded field of EV rivals jostle to outperform and undercut one another.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
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Several of these PACs are affiliated with an organization called Public First, which received a grant of twenty million dollars from Anthropic.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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The state counterpart to the National Institutes of Health would fund grants and programs for research in biomedicine, climate, wildfire, and infectious disease, among other areas.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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The Treat a Stranger Grant will be an annual program for which an allotment of money will be distributed however the selection jury sees fit—to a group of artists, one artist, or through other arrangements.—
Andy Battaglia,
ARTnews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Amid that frenzy, Gala Games sold the initial allotment of 4,661 NFT plots of Legacy land within days of first putting them up for public sale.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Annuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annuity. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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