Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dues
Noun
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Fans could lose their ticket privileges for all sporting events if they are caught throwing tortillas in the stands.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025 -
Pomerville said she’s fed up with people’s rights being stripped or treated as privileges.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Barber characterized the shift as a significant reversal from the cost-cutting approach that has dominated executive benefits and perquisites since the early 2000s and the 2008 financial crisis.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Such blatant grabs by the state send a clear signal to those who are tempted to think that the perquisites of Russian elite status—money and businesses—belong exclusively to them.—
ANDREI KOLESNIKOV,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Sep. 2025
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Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, this revamped SAVE system will ensure government officials can swiftly verify legal status, halting entitlements and voter fraud.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Uncle Sam’s spending binge will remain compounding until Republicans muster the stones to take entitlements off autopilot.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But she is best remembered for Keeping Up Appearances and her role as Hyacinth Bucket, a working-class woman with pretensions of social superiority.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
3 Oct. 2025
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Such pretensions on the part of the mega-rich aren’t new; Lowell reminds us of that.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Did Gacy’s attorney, Sam Amirante, agree to represent him on false pretenses and later struggle to be his lawyer?—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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Harold is so clearly not a great man that his pretenses feel more like cries for help.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Dues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dues. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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