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set-asides

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plural of set-aside

as in subsidies

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Previously, the subsidies had made health care more affordable with enhanced federal credits since 2021.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
But official data shows around 40 million people across the country still depend on government living subsidies.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of subsidies

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Among the grants that were eliminated, frozen or delayed were ones related to maternal health in Michigan, education research in Mississippi and assistance to minority farmers in Iowa, the researchers found.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
That scrutiny has been applied to researchers applying for new grants as well.

— Anil Oza, STAT, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of grants

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All the austerity options—cutting spending, reforming entitlements, or raising taxes are measures politicians are reluctant to embrace before an election.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
That structure draws on capabilities Lowery Company has used across its broader development work, from feasibility and site acquisition through entitlements, design coordination, construction management and operations.

— Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of entitlements

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Structured computation and data management, including calculations, allocations and scenario modeling, should remain within deterministic planning systems, while agents orchestrate and interpret on top of that foundation.

— Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
The tax-aware long-short SMA trade became the hottest product in wealth management, and the two biggest custodians are actively shutting it down for new advisor allocations.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of allocations

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The firm runs the same living-money logic across whole life, term, mortgage protection, final expense, annuities, Roth conversion planning, and estate planning.

— Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
Use Form 1099-R to report distributions from retirement plans, pensions, annuities, and individual retirement accounts (IRAs).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of annuities

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Unlike some other regions, the program doesn’t require extra money from the state or appropriations requests every few years.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
But whether private or public, aviation security funds will have to come from congressional appropriations.

— Hydrick Thomas, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of appropriations

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