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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
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Their visit to Capitol Hill also came with a warning to lawmakers – join Trump in making cuts or pay the price.Melissa Cruz, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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And thankfully, just before Thanksgiving, an anonymous donor gave us some money to help pay for these people to take down links.Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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School choice supporters argue that families should have the right to choose what schools their kids attend, and that state funds should be used to defray costs for some families who opt out of public schools.Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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Both numbers will need to increase to defray the running costs of a large musical.Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
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For many families, the ROI on the nearly $50,000 annual tuition pays off; about 17 percent of the class of 2024 went to Ivies.Max Kutner, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2024
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Yet the great benefit of Eilish’s release strategy had yet to fully pay off.Stephen Daw, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
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Accusations started flying, with many crypto observers alleging that $HAWK was a pump-and-dump scheme, or a rug pull — when developers build hype for a crypto project to raise money only to liquidate their position and walk away, with others left holding worthless tokens.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jones’s assets are now being liquidated, including Infowars, his right-wing conspiracy website.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
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As for how the contract will be funded, Sitkowski said in November that CPS is awaiting tax increment financing, or TIF, surplus funds from the city.Sarah Macaraeg, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
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The money will fund EVgo’s plans to install approximately 7,500 chargers at roughly 1,100 charging stations across the US over the next five years, with a particular focus on fast-charging 350kW stalls that can charge two vehicles simultaneously.Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
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And Democrats stake a claim to moral superiority when Trump does not.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Their returns have been good enough to attract hundreds of limited partners, and GP stakes buyers Blue Owl Capital and Bonaccord Capital Partners have also noticed.Hank Tucker, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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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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Among those whom Dickson called when considering Posen was Domenico De Sole, the chairman of Tom Ford International, who had underwritten, along with Ford, Posen’s second runway show in 2002.Irina Aleksander, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
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Amy Marks Dornbusch underwrites this sentiment in full.Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Grubstake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubstake. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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