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Recent Examples of defund
Trump is working to defund the same project now.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defund
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After the monthslong delay, attorneys sent the government a letter in February and prompted them to allow the father to receive appointments for a fingerprinting background check, a home visit and a DNA test.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Carson Pickett received the ball in that area in the 67th minute and rifled a shot wide.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
5 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 9 Apr. 2026.
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