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subsidize

[suhb-si-dahyz] / ˈsʌb sɪˌdaɪz /


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Would they be willing to subsidize some of your lifestyle while you adjust to your new financial reality?

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 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 U.A.E.’s sovereign-wealth funds managing over $1.8 trillion in assets provide a massive cushion that allow it to avoid external borrowing, subsidize local businesses and inject liquidity into the domestic economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

By selling its infrastructure, Meta can establish a steady revenue stream to subsidize this effort, buying the company time to catch up to its competitors.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

It doesn’t include the billions the government spends to subsidize corn.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

He also lacked an enormous budget or access to the huge data centers that American artificial-intelligence companies have, but was able to tap a government-sponsored program that subsidizes computing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 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

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

Some city networks — like the 165 cameras in Laredo and 150 in El Paso — were entirely subsidized by the grants.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Those subsidized tree farms are maturing now, unfortunately at a time when demand for wood fiber has been significantly reduced by global competition, increased use of recycled materials and other factors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Two thousand pharmacologists and bio chemists were subsidized in A.F. 178.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

“They are systematically subsidizing their industry, and we are picking one product at a time,” VDMA’s Richtberg said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

They are subsidizing the powerful agency of the secular press, particularly the Sunday newspapers, and thousands of the people are confronting these puzzling questions.

From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. Ellinwood




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