EARMARKS Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of earmark

as in dedicates

to keep or intend for a special purpose the earnings from my second job have been earmarked for a down payment on a car

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noun

plural of earmark

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Recent Examples of earmarks

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Instead of turning off this flow of free money, how about the city simply earmarks existing taxes on these properties to create an affordable housing fund? — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025 Josephides earmarks the Greek island of Samos as one of the next destinations to go through this cycle. — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025

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Quan, 56, dedicates a chapter to attending that year’s awards ceremony (the SAG Awards have since been renamed the Actor Awards) with the cast of his 2022 hit Everything Everywhere All at Once in his new memoir Never Say Die.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
Goal dedicates more than 3,000 square feet of interior and exterior space to socializing, relaxing, and entertaining, wrapped in a palette of ivory, caramel, and cream.

— Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of dedicates

Noun

Half a century of population change Daniel Adams, an R&D scientist at ORNL and lead author of the study, said that LandScan Mosaic is the first globally available population dataset released with this set of characteristics.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
The team had surveyed the site the previous year, McLean said, and found several characteristics consistent with early medieval church architecture.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of characteristics

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After two hundred pages of diagnosing the Democrats’ problems, Jentleson devotes a single page to this solution, leaving many questions unanswered.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
Amenities and experiences Harmon Guest House smartly devotes most of its real estate to guest rooms, allowing for maximum comfort in a busy area.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of devotes

Noun

This is the visual flow of the arrangement, which is characterized by the repetition of elements or features.

— Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 19 Sep. 2026
One of its most inventive features was the rolleron, a small toothed wheel mounted on each rear fin.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of features

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The biggest laundry savings happen between washes Skipping just one unnecessary 20-gallon load per week saves about 1,040 gallons of water per year.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026
One fewer load per week saves hundreds of gallons a year while reducing the energy, detergent and microfiber pollution that come with every cycle.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of saves

Noun

Inside each of those branches are the attributes that lead to either success or failure.

— Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Brands whose attributes are incomplete, inconsistent or formatted for humans to read rather than machines will simply not be found.

— Lauren Livak Gilbert, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of attributes

Noun

If that’s possible, then mathematicians can get many hard-to-prove properties of a regular graph from the matching binomial graph — for free.

— Paulina Rowińska, Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
In 2024, Marx, Hill, and several neighbors hired a grazier to bring goats and sheep to nineteen properties in Bennett Ridge.

— Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026

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