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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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Janet agreed to pay over $8,600 in restitution and complete 150 hours of community service.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
14 June 2026
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In early times, most humans barely paid attention to weather calamities because the region was so sparsely populated.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
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Some states, including Alabama, California, Colorado and Louisiana offer grants to homeowners to defray the cost of mitigation efforts, Hausman wrote.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
2 June 2026
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The new equity fund is supposed to defray the cost of paying back people that lost their homes in prior tax sales.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2026
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But at the time, there was no guarantee the gamble would pay off.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
20 June 2026
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That decision paid off big time.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 June 2026
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Ultimately, Evans allegedly told the victims that their curse was tied to finances, and that the only way to remove the curse was to liquidate their holdings and send the money to her in cash or gold bars, according to court documents.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 June 2026
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Levers to pull Investors often cite Strategy’s ability to survive the 2022 bear market without liquidating bitcoin as a key part of its bull case.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
9 June 2026
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Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones has raised millions, including helping to get $800,000 in donations to fund a replica of a historic ship for the maritime museum in his San Diego district.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2026
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The National Academy for AI Instruction, funded by Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, offers classes to teachers on how to use AI.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
20 June 2026
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Australia’s old situation was arguably even worse in Oceania, a reality that meant decades of staking their entire World Cup chances on an extremely fraught intercontinental playoff.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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The type of tomato plant and whether it is supported with staking or caging factors into spacing.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
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When breaches occur, the prevailing remediation tactic involves a limited period of identity monitoring and perhaps a nominal payment in the hundreds to low thousands of dollars, hardly recompense for one's identity being premanently exposed to the netherworld of the internet.—
Wayne Lonstein,
Forbes.com,
23 Mar. 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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The partnerships helped underwrite BYD’s IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that same year.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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In underwriting the loss can run to many times the premium, so a model that is right 95% of the time but wildly overconfident the rest can still be ruinous if its failures bunch together in the wrong place.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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“Grubstake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubstake. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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