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Recent Examples of defund
Amid calls from Republicans in Congress to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which funds National Public Radio the Public Broadcasting Service, Charlotte public media leaders said supporting their work is more important than ever.
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Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2025
The administration has taken several aggressive steps against the press, including investigations into ABC, CBS, and NBC News by the FCC, efforts to dismantle the government-run Voice of America, and threats to defund public broadcasters PBS and NPR.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
The proposal would break up and significantly defund the agency across programs, curtailing everything from ocean research to coastal management while shifting one of NOAA’s robust satellite programs out of the agency and putting another up for commercial bidding.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2025
In the first three months of his term, district judges have issued seventeen nationwide injunctions, blocking executive orders that, among other things, sought to end birthright citizenship, defund the Department of Education, and ban transgender people from serving in the military.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2025
The administration has taken several aggressive steps against the press, including investigations into ABC, CBS, and NBC News by the FCC, efforts to dismantle the government-run Voice of America, and threats to defund public broadcasters PBS and NPR.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
The proposal would break up and significantly defund the agency across programs, curtailing everything from ocean research to coastal management while shifting one of NOAA’s robust satellite programs out of the agency and putting another up for commercial bidding.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2025
In the first three months of his term, district judges have issued seventeen nationwide injunctions, blocking executive orders that, among other things, sought to end birthright citizenship, defund the Department of Education, and ban transgender people from serving in the military.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defund
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What other big inmate escapes received national attention?—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
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The second-place horse will receive $400,000 with the third-place horse earning $220,000, the fourth-place making $120,000, and the fifth-place horse winning $60,000.—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
17 May 2025
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Many scenes in the film are spoken in the local language and the village, as well as the mountainous, rugged landscape that surrounds it, are portrayed as subsisting at the edge between wilderness and civilization.—
Bartolomeo Sala,
The Dial,
27 Mar. 2025
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From here on out, Cam is pretty much tripping balls every day for the rest of his life, subsisting for the first few weeks on a bulk purchase from Lump.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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