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Recent Examples of grubstake
Out of cash, Steen reluctantly abandoned grubstaking to work as a carpenter in Tucson, Arizona, for a year, but the uranium called to him.
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Aaron Robinson, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
Aaron Robinson, Car and Driver, 27 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grubstake
Verb
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In Miami-Dade County, assuming a minimum of $225 per citation, the more than 145,000 citations issued this school year would yield more than $32.6 million if all were paid.—
Carlos Suarez,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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Unsecured Financing With unsecured financing, your lender is relying on your promise to pay them back.—
Levi King,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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In addition to the buyouts, the resignation of Moog, a Chicago tech entrepreneur who was elevated from interim to permanent CEO of Chicago Public Media in 2021, may help defray costs going forward.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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At the University of Chicago, each participant is given $10,000 in the form of a stipend to defray tuition costs and living expenses.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes,
6 Sep. 2024
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Yes, but: Residents still paying off their mortgage will pay their tax increases through their monthly mortgage payments.—
Ryan Deto,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
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At the same time, some have gambled that being in Trump’s good graces would be beneficial — and that risk seems to have paid off.—
Jess Weatherbed,
The Verge,
16 Jan. 2025
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Eventually, the team's assets were liquidated and sold to Front Row Motorsports for a fraction of their initial value, although this did not immediately curtail operations.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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By Thursday morning, Chen had liquidated enough of the token to donate over $1 million to Hankinson’s lab.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The governor is also asking lawmakers to transfer $350 million from the state’s coffers to fund the program’s services, according to the draft proposal published by the governor’s office.—
Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
25 Jan. 2025
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All speakers, including individuals and the media, use money amassed from the economic marketplace to fund their speech, and the First Amendment protects the resulting speech.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Jan. 2025
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Standards ‘are not being met’ The sheepherders’ tent was miles off-trail in the mountains of Idaho, staked on a sagebrush hillside with a wide valley splayed out before it.—
Ian Max Stevenson,
Idaho Statesman,
17 Jan. 2025
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But who knows whether various methods that corporate giants are staking can get cheap enough to become a real weapon against global warming.—
Ben Geman,
Axios,
16 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Businesses fail if proceeds do not recompense all expenses used in producing and delivering their products.—
Phillip Molnar,
The Mercury News,
8 Aug. 2024
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The farmers argue that they should be recompensed by Texas under the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Jan. 2024
Verb
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In August, Girardi was found guilty of four counts of wire fraud for embezzling millions of dollars from his law firm’s clients, then using the funds to underwrite a lavish lifestyle for him and his now-estranged wife, reality TV star Erika Girardi.—
Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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That fund has generated as much as $5 billion a year and has been used to underwrite an assortment of climate programs, from wildfire prevention to high-speed rail.—
Lisa Friedman,
New York Times,
25 Nov. 2024
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“Grubstake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubstake. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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