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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
Verb
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Werner heard that one of her scholarships—which had been administered by the center—was being eliminated, sending her into a panic about how to pay for school.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Federal investigators ultimately found that its officers use excessive force, discriminate against Black people, conduct stops and searches without probable cause, and arrest people purely for not having the money to pay fines.—
Topher Sanders,
ProPublica,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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There are some ways to defray costs, though.—
Rachel Nuwer,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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What’s unclear is how it will all be paid for, since Republican deficit hawks typically require spending offsets to help defray the lost tax revenue and avoid piling onto the nation’s $36 trillion debt load.—
Lisa Mascaro,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The city has requested a refinancing package to pay off its outstanding balance to the Small Cities Organized Risk Effort, which has been hired to assist Isleton with its debt.—
Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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In concept, these make sense because Connecticut needs to pay off our long term debt and maintain a strong savings account for a rainy day.—
State Reps Jillian Gilchrest, 18th District, and Kate Farrar, 20th District,
Hartford Courant,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Both individual and corporate taxpayers could be liquidating or not demanding at many Treasury bonds to have cash available to make their tax payments.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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The volatility of the US swap spreads around the tariff announcements suggests that some of these trades could have been liquidated and helped send yields higher.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The fund was given a total of $27 billion dollars to help fund clean energy projects in low-income communities.—
Callie Patteson,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Apr. 2025
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The contracts funded services to help refugees, unaccompanied refugee minors, asylees, and victims of human trafficking and torture.—
April Rubin,
Axios,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Some won't bloom the first year, others may shoot up and require staking.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
9 Apr. 2025
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Hard-line House conservatives, convinced that the Senate numbers would reign supreme, staked opposition to the budget resolution.—
Mychael Schnell,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Our society doesn’t send teenagers to fight each other to the death and watch it on live TV as a form of entertainment and recompense for a long-ago rebellion.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Businesses fail if proceeds do not recompense all expenses used in producing and delivering their products.—
Phillip Molnar,
The Mercury News,
8 Aug. 2024
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The entire Real Madrid basketball program, from the EuroLeague club to the U-13 academy team, is underwritten by the multi-billion-dollar Real Madrid FC soccer franchise.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Identifying new ways to underwrite and quickly realize value.—
Sarah Elk,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Grubstake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubstake. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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