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Recent Examples of defund
These improvements came after Americans rejected soft-on-crime and defund-the-police policies, which resulted in a spike in crime over the previous 4 years.
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Gabe Evans, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
And then to have a new president come along, slash funding to the arts, defund the National Endowment for the Arts among many other arts agencies, and then insist single-handedly to add his name to the memorial.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
The print demands that, perhaps, like language and letter, the call to defund ICE should be taught to us in our youth and with the same urgency that we were taught the alphabet.
—Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
The amendment aimed to defund the United States African Development Foundation, citing allegations of corruption against one of its leaders.
—CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
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Gabe Evans, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
And then to have a new president come along, slash funding to the arts, defund the National Endowment for the Arts among many other arts agencies, and then insist single-handedly to add his name to the memorial.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
The print demands that, perhaps, like language and letter, the call to defund ICE should be taught to us in our youth and with the same urgency that we were taught the alphabet.
—Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
The amendment aimed to defund the United States African Development Foundation, citing allegations of corruption against one of its leaders.
—CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defund
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One infant receiving the Mead Johnson product died — from sepsis, the article said.—
David Hilzenrath,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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One strike hit a police checkpoint while another hit a group of people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser hospital, which received the bodies.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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While tough shot-making is fun, prospects who subsist too heavily on that diet have a much higher failure rate as pros, where those shots go from hard to harder.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2026
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Until the money arrived, Haley had been trying to subsist largely on black coffee.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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