as in subsidy
a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal action
entitlements to local school districts
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Recent Examples of entitlement
Some say there is an air of growing entitlement among supporters, and perhaps there is online.
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Michael Walker, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
State taskforces must ensure that the state can comply with legal entitlements to services.
—Sarah Healy Eagan, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
But boundless entitlement and a gift for micromanagement can’t save him when their plane crashes in the Gulf of Thailand.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
Expansion happened slowly, often taking months to configure billing integrations, set up entitlements, and ensure compliance with local rules.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
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Michael Walker, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
State taskforces must ensure that the state can comply with legal entitlements to services.
—Sarah Healy Eagan, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
But boundless entitlement and a gift for micromanagement can’t save him when their plane crashes in the Gulf of Thailand.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
Expansion happened slowly, often taking months to configure billing integrations, set up entitlements, and ensure compliance with local rules.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for entitlement
Noun
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Attendees at the baby fair in Seoul nodded to the government’s many initiatives, including subsidies and support programs for young parents.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Cruz, who was skeptical of having the subsidy administered by police, said neither Noecker nor Bowie alerted him about Wednesday’s public hearing despite his outreach to both members.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2026
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The funding is part of the fair’s community giving program and provided through community grants and sponsorships.—
Aria Jones,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Feb. 2026
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One of the science community’s biggest concerns has been disruptions in the flow of grant funding to universities and institutes from the NIH, the agency responsible for funneling federal dollars into biomedical and life sciences research.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
4 Feb. 2026
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Much of the tribe’s revenues are used to pay for these services and infrastructure on the reservation, as well as the repurchasing of land on the reservation that was lost to non-tribal entities during the era of allotment from the late 1800s until about the mid-1900s.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Another option for the Heat could be converting the contracts of their two-way players to standard deals, with Myron Gardner, Jahmir Young and Vlad Goldin currently holding the team’s allotment of three two-way deals.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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Though the study is underway now, it’s been in the works since Congress included the plan in appropriations legislation in 2022.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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The $1 million is not a new appropriation.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Entitlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entitlement. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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