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Recent Examples of defundMiki Zohar threatened in a statement to defund the awards academy.—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 See All Example Sentences for defund
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