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Recent Examples of defund
In addition to cutting funds for PBS and NPR, Trump has, via executive order, threatened to defund elite universities, including Harvard, that refuse to take government dictation over curriculum and hiring policies.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
But past attempts to defund NPR and PBS—including in Trump’s first term—have failed, and public media has quite a wide base of support.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 June 2025
The city of Baltimore on Thursday voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 29 May 2025
Some Jewish senators have accused Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target U.S. universities, making reference to his threats to defund certain schools following pro-Palestinian campus protests.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 22 May 2025
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
But past attempts to defund NPR and PBS—including in Trump’s first term—have failed, and public media has quite a wide base of support.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 6 June 2025
The city of Baltimore on Thursday voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 29 May 2025
Some Jewish senators have accused Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target U.S. universities, making reference to his threats to defund certain schools following pro-Palestinian campus protests.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defund
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Unión del Barrio, which has more than three hundred thousand followers on Facebook and ninety thousand on Instagram, maintains a tip line and receives hundreds of messages and calls every day.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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Because of our concentration of excellent research universities and academic medical centers, Massachusetts received the highest per capita NIH and NSF funding in the nation in fiscal year 2024.—
Alan M. Leventhal,
Boston Herald,
22 June 2025
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Many scenes in the film are spoken in the local language and the village, as well as the mountainous, rugged landscape that surrounds it, are portrayed as subsisting at the edge between wilderness and civilization.—
Bartolomeo Sala,
The Dial,
27 Mar. 2025
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From here on out, Cam is pretty much tripping balls every day for the rest of his life, subsisting for the first few weeks on a bulk purchase from Lump.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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