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subsidize

[suhb-si-dahyz] / ˈsʌb sɪˌdaɪz /


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According to the PAC’s website, its members oppose the proposition because they argue it would do little to bring down the cost of housing and instead subsidize high-priced construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Annuities squeeze more income out of retirement savings than anything else, because the people who die young subsidize those who live a long time.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Taxpayers are no longer willing to subsidize to the tune of thousands of crores, your stale cutlets and evening swims,” author Anand Ranganathan wrote on X in May.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Researchers have said it doesn’t subsidize housing deeply enough to reach truly low-income renters, so it produces housing in markets and at income levels that already have a surplus instead of filling a shortage.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The industry of Angolans doesn’t subsidize foreigners, or any castles with moats, and their children are likely to get vaccinations and learn to read.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

To help make housing affordable, the Singaporean government subsidizes housing by building apartments around the city.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

It’s not known who subsidizes the low rents at C Street, which is technically a church and doesn’t disclose its backers.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

"Businesses are going to make a fortune, and that's why you cannot continue to have a payroll tax system that taxes jobs and then subsidizes automation," the governor said in a statement.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Currently, the law subsidizes 83 ADA positions for Orleans Parish.

From Slate ● May 5, 2026

Inside Jilin Province, China created the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, where forty percent of the population is ethnic Korean and where the government subsidizes Korean-language schools and publications.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Local governments offer subsidized housing and office space as well as computing-power vouchers to access AI more cheaply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

The lawsuit states that California’s community health centers served 6.7 million people in 2025 and 67% are enrolled in Medi-Cal, state subsidized healthcare coverage for low-income Californians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Barrera has long subsidized his school board pay — a stipend of about $20,000 a year plus health benefits — with outside union work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The increases were directed at passenger vehicles filling up beyond their allocated quotas and come after Tehran already cut the monthly subsidized allocations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

When he was a captive cub, Xiang Xiang’s diet had been subsidized with manufactured foods packed with nutrients.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

Her data showed that people in low-risk areas were essentially subsidizing high-risk homes in California’s wealth enclaves such as the Pacific Palisades devastated by the January 2025 firestorm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Currently tenants with vouchers subsidizing their rent payments need a government inspection before they can move in.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

“I think the larger question is: Are we subsidizing bad responses to problems that we know are going to persist?” he said, responding to a question about infrastructure that won’t last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

And it will preserve credibility for the most important index on the market, while keeping unwitting buyers from subsidizing a business that has not earned the right to their largesse.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

It is contended that if railroads were required to report to the public every item of income and expenditure, discrimination and extortion, as well as bribery and corrupt subsidizing, would soon cease.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee




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