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Recent Examples of defund
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.
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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
When the Democratic-majority Congress learned of the campaign, the Senate promptly passed an amendment to defund it, reasserting both its war-making prerogative and the power of the purse.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
But the threat to subway funding comes amid months of federal efforts to defund the trains and a series of political fights.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
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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
When the Democratic-majority Congress learned of the campaign, the Senate promptly passed an amendment to defund it, reasserting both its war-making prerogative and the power of the purse.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
But the threat to subway funding comes amid months of federal efforts to defund the trains and a series of political fights.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defund
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T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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The decision to place Hauck on leave followed three complaints accusing him of inappropriate speech on multiple occasions, according to records received via a Freedom of Information Act request.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
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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In fact, many traditional northern hunter–gatherers such as the Inuit subsisted mostly on animal foods.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 July 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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