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sinking fund

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as in funds

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Recent Examples of sinking fund Goal setting and category tracking YNAB is well-equipped to help its users set and track financial goals, such as building a sinking fund for car maintenance. — Amy Deyoung, USA Today, 17 June 2026 The Innovation Grant money could finance that sinking fund, according to Ruggini. — Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 17 Nov. 2025 For those who attend multiple weddings per year, a wedding guest sinking fund is probably a good idea. — Nerdwallet, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025 Borrowers may look to sinking funds as a way to help plan for potential student loan debt cancellation. — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025 Start a sinking fund This time of year can be expensive because everything piles up at once. — Emmie Martin, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024

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Those funds went toward student success initiatives, faculty research programs, and capital projects, and UC Merced is also largely an institution for first-generation college students.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
Those funding buckets are called general funds, and county budgets do detail how much each department receives from those funds.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

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Robbie’s kids at least have Robbie’s niece, Maeve (Emilia Jones,) and a nest egg, but there’s a strong argument that no one actually won here.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
The eye-popping gains of Nvidia, Micron, Alphabet and other AI stocks have helped inflate the net worths of millions of Americans by lifting the value of their retirement nest eggs, college savings plans and brokerage accounts.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026

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Hong Kong — There’s a plucky little Qing Dynasty artifact that at first glance looks out of place among China’s many Forbidden City treasures.

— Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
The Jabara family loaded themselves and their treasure of berries into Sam’s black Dodge truck and headed back toward Mancelona.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of treasure

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An acquisition target needs to be large enough to be impactful, but small enough to keep the acquirer below that 10% deposit limit.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
As per the research paper, this new study was conducted at the world-leading Bayan Obo deposit in Inner Mongolia.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026

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