funded

past tense of fund

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Recent Examples of funded This budget will also have to determine long-term solutions for positions that are grant-funded, particularly in law enforcement. Sofi Zeman august 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026 The organizations, including MoveUp Southeast Michigan, MoveUp LA, and MoveUp Washington, will operate on their own but stay funded by the Ballmers. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 The goal is to empower more women to allocate capital, fundamentally changing who gets funded and driving future innovation, rather than waiting for the traditional system to change. Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 The organization is funded through Howard County government, state and federal grants, private foundations, and contributions from individuals, community groups, the faith community and local businesses. Adam Thompson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 Scholarships on the site appear to be funded largely by an array of private groups, including foundations, associations, fraternities, unions and other organizations. Todd Wallack, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2026 Because public schools are predominately funded by property taxes and state money, in general, lower-income communities have schools with less money. Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2026 The deal also blindsided Forest Hill Church, which has met there ever since the church funded the Ballantyne branch’s expansion 15 years ago. Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2026 This is in addition to the ticking fee, which is 25 cents per share per quarter or about $650 million dollars per quarter, and would be funded at close through additional equity. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funded
Verb
  • This funding has financed the trees, materials, coordination, planting and three-year stewardship of some 85,000 large canopy trees and 25,000 shrubs along streets and at nearly every San Jose school and park.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Its results show a striking divergence between companies manufacturing new power technologies and those improving how energy is financed, deployed, managed and consumed.
    Rob Day, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Firms invest more to produce more to export more at lower or negative margins, subsidized by local governments whose own fiscal health depends on the factories’ staying open.
    Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In the 80s and 90s, even major teams had often been run on razor-thin margins (and were subsidized by owners).
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Seeing an old bulky PC with a PC-DOS command line OS takes those of us of a certain age back to the heady days when computers were exciting and new, even though they had not yet been endowed with the eerie cognitive powers of LLMs.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026

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“Funded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funded. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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