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Recent Examples of give back
Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
The students will give back to the company by creating collages to be displayed at Albersons’ leadership conference in September in Itasca.
—Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2025
The city would need to negotiate any giveback, which would likely require concessions on its end.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
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Verb
These land swaps would see Kyiv surrender a land mass nearly ten times as large as what Russia is prepared to give back.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
The students will give back to the company by creating collages to be displayed at Albersons’ leadership conference in September in Itasca.
—Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
Unions granted wage and benefit concessions in 2015 and 2011 to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and benefit givebacks in 2009 to Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2025
The city would need to negotiate any giveback, which would likely require concessions on its end.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for give back
Noun
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Even better, several styles have early discounts.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Hernandez recalls a client asking for a discount.—
Joyce Marter,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Iran was supposed to defend its proxies, to reciprocate for their many years of fighting for Iran.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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For her part, Bernstein is reciprocating by teaching Hunter and his dad how to play her sport of choice.—
Erin Clements,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Romania, meanwhile, has tried to right the ship after several wayward years of mismanagement at the Romanian Film Center, and a pile of unpaid debts from its cash rebate program that the government is finally close to settling in full.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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The top 45 percent rebate tier is reserved for films that spend more than $10 million and prominently feature Jordanian cultural elements.—
Mathew Scott,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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OpenAI also says there is a 45 percent to 65 percent reduction in factual errors over GPT-4, depending on the setting, as well as substantial gains in handling medical and coding tasks on industry-standard benchmarks.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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The premium on French 30-year bonds breached a level last seen in 2008 as the government is on the brink of collapse, putting the country’s deficit reduction plans at risk .—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Prosecutors had argued that the Fernandes Anderson kickback was tantamount to an imperfect or unofficial bribe, but that the evidence didn’t allow the government to officially charge her in such a way.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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This included reporting that the company manipulated vote counts, is owned by a company founded in Venezuela to rig elections for Hugo Chavez, is paid kickbacks to government officials who used its machines in swing states and was involved in voting irregularities in Texas in 2018.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As many tax practitioners predicted, the IRS is relying on new box codes to address new deductions, like the tip deduction.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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For example, a single filer claiming the full $25,000 would lose the deduction entirely at $400,000 in income.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
3 Sep. 2025
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During the first week of the abatement, the city reported removing over 120,000 pounds of trash.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
31 Aug. 2025
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That resolution stated the totality of benefits from the new development, including employee salaries, was sufficient to grant the 10-year abatement.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Give back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/give%20back. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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