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Recent Examples of defund
Those schools, in turn, can now defund programs based on low numbers.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
The commission, which was established by statute in 1987 and serves as a bridge between the government and the state’s growing Latino population, has now survived two attempts to defund or eliminate it.
—Idaho Statesman, 16 Mar. 2026
Trump is working to defund the same project now.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
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.
—Gabe Evans, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
The commission, which was established by statute in 1987 and serves as a bridge between the government and the state’s growing Latino population, has now survived two attempts to defund or eliminate it.
—Idaho Statesman, 16 Mar. 2026
Trump is working to defund the same project now.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
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.
—Gabe Evans, Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defund
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In states that don’t conform to the federal tax changes, workers who receive a federal tax deduction for tips or overtime still will owe state taxes on those earnings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Middleton also received the endorsement from another Republican candidate, Aaron Reitz.—
Jack Fink
April 12,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 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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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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