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Recent Examples of grubstake
Out of cash, Steen reluctantly abandoned grubstaking to work as a carpenter in Tucson, Arizona, for a year, but the uranium called to him.
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Aaron Robinson, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
Aaron Robinson, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grubstake
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Judges in counties with the program have a list of OFR attorneys who can be contacted and paid through legislative appropriations, rather than through court funds.—
Raynee Howell,
Oklahoma Watch,
9 Feb. 2026
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Anderson paid tribute to the assistant director Adam Somner, who died in 2024 at 57 from thyroid cancer.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026
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Family members have started a GoFundMe page to defray medical and funeral expenses.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
16 Jan. 2026
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The company will contribute $11 million to two funds to defray costs for residents, schools and local water systems to drill replacement wells or install tanks.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Five years later, that gamble has paid off — big time.—
Susan Stapleton,
Des Moines Register,
14 Feb. 2026
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Flagg benefitted from a rocky start as the team’s starting point guard, but those reps have begun to pay off.—
Mike Curtis,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
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Once a tariff is liquidated, the importer has up to 180 days to file a protest, or an appeal of the decision, with CBP.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Feb. 2026
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The largest category of filing was for the fully liquidating Chapter 7, with 14,259.—
Paul Flahive,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
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Much of the Department of Homeland Security is set to run out of money Saturday morning after negotiations stalled between the White House and congressional Democrats over new restrictions on federal immigration agents and lawmakers left town without funding the department.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The governor’s office said his international travel is paid for by the California State Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit that is funded primarily by corporate donations and run by a board Newsom appoints.—
Melody Gutierrez,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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The majority stakes the largest detention initiative in American history on the possibility that … Congress must have wanted these noncitizens detained—some of them the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
12 Feb. 2026
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For the Chinese Communist Party, which stakes its claim to legitimacy on defeating Japanese invaders during World War II, that would be an unforgivable outrage.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Rioters have typically been ordered to pay $500 if found guilty of a misdemeanor or $2,000 if convicted of a felony to the Architect of the Capitol to recompense for the damage.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
13 Apr. 2025
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Our society doesn’t send teenagers to fight each other to the death and watch it on live TV as a form of entertainment and recompense for a long-ago rebellion.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Somewhere in the pipeline, somebody has to underwrite intelligent risk.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Payments, invoicing, lending, inventory management, customer support, and even underwriting increasingly happen inside messaging apps like WhatsApp.—
Ilona Limonta-Volkova,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Grubstake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubstake. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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