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Recent Examples of set-aside
Noun
Companies of all types should be allowed to compete on an even playing field to demonstrate their best solutions and avoid set-asides that favor one type of company. Toni Townes-Whitley, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 That’s a huge number, a three-fold increase in housing set-asides for our hardworking city employees, and a crucial lifeline for countless New Yorkers. Mark Levine, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025 In addition to the rural set-aside visa quota explained above, this development provides unprecedented timeframes for rural EB-5 petitions based on my observations as the managing partner of an EB-5 firm. Sam Silverman, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025 Even more controversial has been the state’s year-old Live Local Act, which overrides local zoning rules in commercial and industrial districts to encourage developers to supersize projects that include certain set-asides for middle-class housing. Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025 If that’s the case, the agreement has to meet HUD’s standard for repair set-asides. Mallika Mitra, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025 By then, billions of dollars in covid-era relief from the federal government — including a set-aside for TANF, which can cover emergency aid, job training, child care, and more — is likely to have expired. Aneri Pattani, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2025 In November, the City Council came to the rescue and approved a $20 million set-aside in the city's 2025 budget. Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025 Those set-aside times are just called something different. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for set-aside
Noun
  • Cursor’s desktop application gained popularity last year for providing coding assistance by drawing from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Document the encounter and seek assistance as soon as possible.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • The ready-to-wear award went to Rachel Scott of Diotima, which received a grant and access to a Google mentorship program created in partnership with FTUS.
    Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • This week, a federal antisemitism task force announced a review of Harvard's federal grants and contracts, worth nearly $9 billion, as the university faces an investigation into campus antisemitism, and Princeton University confirmed dozens of its research grants have been halted.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Eligibility for premium subsidies for insurance plans sold in Affordable Care Act marketplaces is also tied to the official poverty level.
    Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2025
  • First, a policy group that tracks government subsidies related to economic development.
    Alex Brown, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There are volunteer opportunities, a teen club, and during the current conflict, the Hesed has become a hub for delivering tons of humanitarian aid, trauma care, and kinship.
    Maria Zimina, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio temporarily halted most foreign aid grants in January, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which carried out much of the work to provide PEPFAR aid, has largely been dissolved.
    Orion Rummler, Them., 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The federal government is pushing for work requirements and block grants, which would cap funding and shift more responsibility to the states.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025
  • This could mean instituting a per-capita cap on funding or reducing the federal matching rate and possibly replacing it with a funding system with block grants in which states would be either given a capped yearly lump sum of money or an annual upper limit on federal payments per Medicaid enrollee.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Whelan’s minimum cost for that worker, however, was closer to $50 an hour, because his payments also covered union health care, pension and annuity contributions as well as mandatory Social Security, Medicare and income taxes.
    Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Licensed agents should guide clients through these options, exploring how such annuities may align with their goals.
    Drew Gurley, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Tuition makes up about 19% of WSU’s $1.3 billion budget, the second highest source behind state appropriations at 26%, with the $16 billion shortfall in Olympia looming overhead.
    Tim Clouser | The Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Carter had faced accusations of cultural appropriation in the past, and even on the website, her inspiration is vaguely credited.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • House Democrats used Tuesday as a national day of action on the entitlement program.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
  • For example, the gridlock includes entitlement reform and tax hikes on the wealthy that may be unavoidable, but politically toxic.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Set-aside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/set-aside. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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