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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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Caputo vowed to prevent such pitfalls, with intelligence and financial oversight agencies helping to vet applicants' identities, criminal records and sources of funds.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Anderson and Lago chastised Castro, accusing her of using city funds to help cover personal expenses to attend her ethics hearing.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026

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Reasons for the higher losses for the elderly range from access to a nest egg and a lack of comfort with newer technology to loneliness and declining cognitive abilities.

— Angela Ramos, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
The national nest egg also bankrolled the military, as soldiers could be paid partly in property.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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The real treasures, though, are displayed inside the museum-style glass concierge desk, where artifacts from the original hotel are on loan from the Naples Historical Society.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
When it was closed down in 1539, its treasures, books and relics were seized and its lands and buildings sold off, some to local nobles and gentry, some to the town authorities of Bury.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of treasure

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In 1882, major silver deposits were discovered in the Red Mountain Mining District, south of Ouray.

— Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Like the wavy structures of a coral reef, layered deposits in the Arabia Terra region of Mars showcase the planet's strange beauty and even stranger past.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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