How to Use unfunded in a Sentence

unfunded

adjective

• Chow, and her students, took the project on as an unfunded labor of love.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• But the plan was unfunded, causing the pound and government bonds to crash.
  — Jens Larsen, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• Investors threw her plan for huge unfunded tax cuts back in her face.
  — Mark Thompson, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• The second tier, yet unfunded, would get into specifics on smaller chunks of the project.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2022
• The fourth tier is the one yet unfunded, a bike and pedestrian bridge stretching from Lippold Park across the river to the west bank.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• Indeed, the project remained unfunded for the first eight years, surviving just on lab members’ spare time.
  — WIRED, 30 Jan. 2023
• Manly said that at this point, the agreement is unfunded and incomplete.
  — NBC News, 15 July 2021
• Congress had a role from unfunded mandates to letting the place run with an empty board of governors.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
• But other safety projects are still unfunded, Rivera said.
  — oregonlive, 10 July 2021
• Today’s road map stands in stark contrast to the one issued just eight weeks ago by the previous government that proposed billions in unfunded tax cuts.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• Without agreement on a new formula, there may be no payment this year, and a wide variety of state programs could go unfunded.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2021
• But the unfunded tax cuts forced the Bank of England to intervene to try to restore market stability—and prompted fierce criticism of both Kwarteng and Truss.
  — Armani Syed, Time, 17 Oct. 2022
• Tory voters backed Truss over Sunak, but he was proved right when Truss’ unfunded tax-cutting package triggered chaos in the markets in September.
  — Sylvia Hui, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• Tory voters backed Truss over Sunak, but he was proved right when Truss' unfunded tax-cutting package triggered chaos in the markets in September.
  — Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
• Each lawmaker will get some earmarks through; others will go unfunded.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2021
• Truss quit in October after her plan for unfunded tax cuts spooked financial markets and rocked the economy.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
• The museum, which among other things maintains a costly fleet of old ships, was established during the 1960s with an unfunded mandate to sustain the legacy of the waterfront.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• As Washington fails to police itself, state and local leaders are likely to find the recent spending sprees adding to their unfunded mandates.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Some cities, like Dallas and Portland, have also had to face up to their huge unfunded pension liabilities.
  — Mark Davidson, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
• The bill would make other changes that Treadaway and other supporters said would reduce the pension systems’ unfunded liability over time and protect the fund in the long run.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 6 Apr. 2021
• But the report cites several unfunded improvement plans, one dating back to 2017.
  — Drew F. Lawrence and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• But with $40 billion in unfunded obligations amassed over seven decades, Connecticut’s per capita pension debt is among the highest in the nation.
  — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2022
• Like many cities, Nashville is also in hock to pensioners, with $4.3 billion in unfunded promises for retiree healthcare.
  — Steven Malanga, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
• Johnson was followed by a short stint in power for Liz Truss, who crashed the economy with a disastrous mini-budget of unfunded tax cuts in October 2022.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Feb. 2023
• Line items in the state budget for education expenses like textbooks and teacher training have gone unfunded for years.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar. 2021
• No more 'unfunded mandates' Lawmakers would need to consider looking at how much a bill would cost school districts during the legislative process.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 9 Nov. 2021
• But the financial market turmoil sparked by the former prime minister and her then finance minister’s plans for unfunded tax cuts made matters much worse.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• Last year, California signed an agreement to increase the pace of preventive maintenance, such as thinning of forests and more planned burns, but that work remains unfunded on the federal side.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Most of this debt comes from unfunded retirement benefit promises, such as pension and retiree healthcare debt.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
• The plan’s $50 billion in unfunded tax cuts sparked turmoil on financial markets, hammering the value of the pound and increasing the cost of U.K. government borrowing.
  — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024