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Recent Examples of fund
Noun
It’s evolved into a reserve asset held by companies, investment funds and governments. Luke Xie, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025 Young investors can start out with a total market index fund, said Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar. Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
Many fans will be wondering whether this is just a one-off occurrence or whether Tottenham will be truly entering a new era in terms of their ambitions and how they are funded. Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025 Republicans have said the expansions from the pandemic era went too far and have tried to persuade Democrats to fund a temporary spending bill that doesn't address the expiring ACA subsidies, with promises of discussing ways to continue the subsidies later. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fund
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fund
Noun
  • Both Michel Barnier and François Bayrou presented austerity budgets and were swiftly ousted in confidence votes.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Her potential ascension to the budget panel was repeatedly highlighted by her campaign in 2020 as a way to sway Maine's fickle - and often decisive - independent voting bloc.
    NPR, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Commitments must be matched with resources.
    Olivier Wenden, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Law enforcement resources from across Tennessee, including federal agents and the Tennessee Highway Patrol Special Operations Unit, were dispatched to assist in the investigation,a source familiar with the effort told CNN.
    Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 2024, 92% of the world’s supply of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and 82% of wind turbines came from one country—China.
    Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Stellantis' supply leader, Marvin Washington, said the company is attempting to fix relationships with suppliers that had previously been strained by an abrupt volume cut in 2024.
    Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For investors, policymakers, and business leaders, the time has come to seize the momentum, champion innovation, and finance the blue transition.
    Olivier Wenden, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • India’s new anti-betting law poses serious punishments for offenders, including potential prison terms for people who facilitate, promote or finance for-money online gaming.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Its politics tend to be a battle between center-left and progressive factions, subsidized by the stratospheric wealth of policy-shaping tech and real-estate billionaires.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In that scenario, California would be subsidizing productions that would’ve opted to shoot in the state regardless.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Boissevain’s nature photography captures these in-transition landscapes in vivid hues and alien geometries, from close-ups of jellyfish-like crystal deposits to aerial shots of what scans like the surface of Mars.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The temple’s foundation deposits also contained a glass plaque confirming it was dedicated to the goddess Isis, the deity Cleopatra identified with during her reign from 51 BCE to 30 BCE.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Not that there’s a whole lot of airtime still up for grabs; as NBC noted earlier this month, nearly all of its in-game NBA inventory was auctioned off during the spring upfront bazaar … although naturally the company is holding a percentage of units back to sell in the scatter market.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • While the second-quarter results were disappointing, officials cited improvement in inventory flow and progress capturing synergies in the wake of the acquisition.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Jones also seemed planted in the pocket and was sacked three times in the fourth quarter alone.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Cooper blew it up anyway, and the rest collapsed the pocket.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025

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