How to Use clawback in a Sentence

clawback

1 of 2 noun

• The same is true of the clawback of $30 billion in unspent Covid funds.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2023
• The company must create and maintain the jobs or face a clawback of the funds.
  — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
• Fines and clawbacks of city funding were among the options floated.
  — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• Look, there should be clawbacks for Gary Becker and the others who explode these banks.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• Look, there should be clawbacks for Gary (sic) Becker and the others who explode these banks.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
• Look at your current clawback policy is to begin to see what changes will need to be made.
  — Betsy Atkins, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Some have interpreted the condition as a veiled threat: Vote in favor of the plan, or risk a clawback.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 8 May 2024
• The clawback will eat into the tax collection agency’s efforts to crack down on rich tax cheats.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• Freitag’s attorney would not say Wednesday if there will be more than the 10 clawback claims filed so far.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2021
• Despite Reese’s defense, the clawback nevertheless weighed on the mind of his boss.
  — Max Blau, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2020
• Well, there should be momentum for three things, one, the clawbacks on these executives.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
• Getting a clawback provision to President Biden’s desk was a good first start.
  — James Broughel, National Review, 29 June 2023
• The group wants the full monthly financial benefit restored and the clawback ended.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• The clawback proposed by Van Hollen and Velazquez is an excellent place for discussion to begin.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
• The senior state aide said many governors were caught off guard by the clawback provision, which would only affect states that hadn’t spent all their federal funds.
  — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
• The de minimis level allows states to lower revenues by 1 percent of the baseline year without triggering the clawback.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• But the clawbacks have resulted in patients overpaying by hundreds of millions of dollars, Hoey said.
  — Arthur Allen, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
• Well, there should be momentum for three things, one, the clawbacks on these executives that could be bipartisan.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
• There needs to be a clawback of executive compensation and for tougher rules on bank executives who have failed banks.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
• The current plan ends a three-year pause on clawbacks related to unemployment overpayments that began in March 2020.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• There needs to be clawback of executive compensation and for tougher rules on bank executives who have failed banks.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2023
• The bill, dubbed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, will suspend the debt ceiling for roughly two years in exchange for a slew of spending clawbacks and other reforms.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 28 May 2023
• In America Congress told regulators to craft a new clawback rule.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
• And there’s clawback language, enabling the federal government to recoup pandemic relief to states that break the tax mandate.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
• Under this approach, the company would pay a bonus to the executive or forgive the balance of the note and, in the case of a success bonus, could have a clawback if the executive leaves before a certain period 2.
  — Svb Contributor, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• The average monthly clawback amount is $300, according to a group actively calling for the restoration of benefits.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2023
• Such a finding would warrant a clawback of some of the state’s coronavirus aid, the group has argued, since federal law prohibits the government from providing help to state agencies engaging in abuse.
  — Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2022
• The clawback was a relatively small, but symbolically important, part of the Republican debt-limit bill that passed the House last month.
  — Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 9 May 2023
• Second, the support representative told me that market declines by themselves will not trigger a clawback.
  — Rob Berger, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• That’s thanks to something called a compensation clawback provision.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 28 May 2021

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claw back

2 of 2 verb

• Trump's odds clawed back too, though not quite all the way.
  — Brady Dale, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
• Chaos tried to claw back, but the deficit was too big to overcome.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• The huge gains clawed back some of the ground lost in a massive sell-off last week.
  — Alex Veiga, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
• Democrats could look to this region to claw back more votes.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2020
• The Terps still had to claw back from a 17-point deficit in the second half and force overtime.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 7 Nov. 2020
• Liberty clawed back and tied the game at 30 with a minute left.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2020
• But at that point, the change was too little and much too late for the Pride to claw back into the match.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• Can the LA Dodgers find a way to claw back into this series?
  — oregonlive, 19 Oct. 2021
• But it’s taken two more years to claw back the other half.
  — Ryan Huddle, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
• If the state cannot do that, the department can claw back that amount of money.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• The Spurs responded with their best quarter of the season in the third, outscoring the Jazz 41-23 to claw back in the game.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2021
• Despite that, Auburn managed to claw back down the stretch and draw within six, 44-38, at the break.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 15 Jan. 2022
• The return of fans to San Siro will undoubtedly help the club claw back some of the debt.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The rally helped the 10-year Treasury yield claw back some of its recent slide.
  — Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2020
• The race is not close and there is no way that Trump can claw back in with recounts or lawsuits.
  — Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Still, Colorado clawed back into the contest with a pair of 4-on-4 goals.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Life will claw back all that extra free time by minutes and hours.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• The Twins jumped to a 4-0 lead only for Kansas City to claw back with two runs in the third and force a battle of the bullpens in the late innings.
  — La Velle E. Neal Iii, Star Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
• The Suns clawed back into the game by funneling their offense through the paint in the third quarter.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• Biden would claw back some of these gains by raising taxes.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
• That might mean giving health-care payers a chance to claw back payments if the drug doesn’t work.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
• Works-made-for-hire are exempt from being clawed back under the U.S.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
• Lions coach Daron Reid saw his team attempt to claw back in the second half with Fox’s pass.
  — Kyle J. Andrews, baltimoresun.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• Treasury’s move to claw back the funding limits Mr. Biden.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
• The market was set to gain for a second straight day on Thursday and claw back much of this month's losses.
  — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• The huge gains clawed back some of the ground lost in a massive sell-off that gave stocks their worst week since the financial crisis of 2008.
  — Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2020
• Otherwise, the state can claw back some of the money if Ford falls short, Messer said.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2022
• Lovejoy trailed at the end of each of the first three quarters but clawed back for the win, capped off with Basson’s game-winning jumper.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
• The good news only goes so far, though, as most of the state tries to claw back a large rainfall deficit to fully shake the drought, Lessor cautioned.
  — Zach Murdock, courant.com, 5 Nov. 2020
• Vestager ordered Ireland to claw back the sum, which amounts to about two quarters of Mac sales globally.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024