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sinking fund

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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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Rarely have the donors or recipients of narco funds been prosecuted, let alone convicted.

— Mary Beth Sheridan, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Schmitz had also proposed a microzoning project in La Guaira in 2018, but couldn’t get the funds to do it.

— Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026

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Symbolism Historically, dragon-slaying stories portrayed the treasure hoard as the ultimate test of a hero’s character.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Indonesia has intensified efforts in recent years to track down cultural treasures scattered abroad through colonial-era collecting, theft and illicit trafficking, including from the Netherlands, which colonized Indonesia for centuries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

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Georgia’s Okefenokee, meanwhile, sits in the subtropical climate band, where peat deposits are more scarce — and where most that do remain have been altered by humans.

— Drew Kann, AJC.com, 20 July 2026
The Jadar deposit in western Serbia, for instance, ranks among the most significant in the world, estimated to be capable of meeting as much as 90% of Europe's current lithium needs.

— Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

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