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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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Eventually, the cumulative toll of Russia’s war economy will need to be paid.—
Alexandra Prokopenko,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Jan. 2025
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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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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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All that Olympic exposure and other events paid off.—
Lily Templeton,
WWD,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is one group of items where being self-aware will pay off.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
26 Jan. 2025
Verb
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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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While the state’s attorney general handled the lawsuits, Burgum emphatically supported them, urging state lawmakers last spring to fully fund the legal fights.—
Mary Steurer,
ProPublica,
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
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Paul’s attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
27 Jan. 2025
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As part of this deal, insurers have agreed to underwrite more policies in fire-prone areas.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Grubstake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubstake. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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