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

• His party appears to have clawed back some support over the summer, according to polls.
  — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• Democrats need to hold the open seat — or win seats elsewhere to make up ground — to claw back the House majority.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
• Mayor Anne Hidalgo, in Paris, has clawed back vast amounts of her city from traffic.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
• But Baker clawed back into the game later in the quarter when Williams scored on his 25-yard run.
  — Arthur L. MacK, al, 19 Oct. 2019
• As the Nuggets were trying to claw back against Dallas on Tuesday night (the second game of a tough back-to-back), Jokic took one shot in the fourth quarter.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2019
• The owner of Lay’s, Doritos, Tostitos and Ruffles chips will put more chips in some bags to claw back customers tired of higher prices with skimpier bags.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
• The Eagles clawed back a two-goal deficit to leave the Emirates Stadium with a 2-2 draw in their last outing, maintaining their strong start to the campaign.
  — SI.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Palm Beach Gardens led in the third set by as many as five points, but the Huskies clawed back and won.
  — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• But it’s taken two more years to claw back the other half.
  — Ryan Huddle, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
• The Standard & Poor’s 500 rallied 1% to claw back all of its loss from the day before.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
• 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
• But after Carter opened the second half with a 3-pointer, the Owls clawed back through an 8-0 run.
  — Houston Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024