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Recent Examples of defund
Miki Zohar threatened in a statement to defund the awards academy.
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
Television Academy Chair Cris Abrego criticized Congress for voting to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in a speech during last night’s Emmy Awards.
—Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Climate scientists have faced not only extreme working conditions, but also antagonistic political movements that reject their findings and attempt to defund their work entirely.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
The group is headed by Dominique Alexander, a stalwart Black Lives Matter and defund the police activist with a prior criminal history.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
Television Academy Chair Cris Abrego criticized Congress for voting to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in a speech during last night’s Emmy Awards.
—Kristina Karisch, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Climate scientists have faced not only extreme working conditions, but also antagonistic political movements that reject their findings and attempt to defund their work entirely.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
The group is headed by Dominique Alexander, a stalwart Black Lives Matter and defund the police activist with a prior criminal history.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defund
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The Greenbergs were also to receive a monetary payment as part of the settlement, although Philadelphia city officials did not admit liability.—
Brandon Griggs,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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The more carp taken, the more tickets one receives.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Oct. 2025
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Some scientists suggest that humans, in fact, made evolutionary leaps as scavengers subsisting off of cats’ felled prey, picking the bones clean.—
Rebecca van Laer
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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Dallas’ offense is swinging for the fences on every possession, subsisting almost exclusively on a diet of explosive plays.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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