as in levy
a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use
the state sales tax boosted the final cost of my new computer
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to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress
your constant arguing is starting to tax my patience
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Recent Examples of tax
Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
In fiscal year 2024, tax revenue fell in 40 states after adjusting for inflation, and many states are projecting budget shortfalls in the short and long term.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2025
Those deductions do raise the taxable income if and when the team is sold—all $1.5 billion would be a gain to be taxed—but not paying taxes today is preferable to paying them in the distant future.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
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Noun
DSTs tax the gross revenue that online firms collect from offering services to users.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
In fiscal year 2024, tax revenue fell in 40 states after adjusting for inflation, and many states are projecting budget shortfalls in the short and long term.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Verb
Any foreign funding of civil society will be taxed 30%.
—Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2025
Those deductions do raise the taxable income if and when the team is sold—all $1.5 billion would be a gain to be taxed—but not paying taxes today is preferable to paying them in the distant future.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tax
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Many of Home Depot’s competitors and suppliers have been raising prices to mitigate cost increases from the 10% universal tariffs on every product entering the United States and higher levies on Chinese goods.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
20 May 2025
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What To Know Diageo is affected by 10 percent tariffs on imports from places including Britain and the European Union but the company's tequila and Canadian whiskey brands are exempt from levies.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
Verb
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The National Weather Service issued heat advisories for areas in Texas that stretch from the Texas Hill Country and the Rio Grande to the state's east coast.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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First identified in the 1970s by NASA's Viking mission, long, dark markings snake down Martian slopes, sometimes stretching across Mars' surface for hundreds of feet.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
19 May 2025
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Several companies have announced layoffs while citing the impact of Trump’s tariffs.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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People need movies, and there’s been very little headwind from the talk of tariffs.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
Verb
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At a time when housing affordability is already straining household finances, that threat isn’t helping inspire confidence.—
Catherine Baab,
Quartz,
22 May 2025
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Emerging narrative or worldview: Immigrants take jobs from American citizens and strain local resources.—
Rick Miller,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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But the sudden imposition of tariffs had plunged the business landscape into VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.—
Jason Richmond,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Americans have largely taken a sour view about where the economy is headed in the wake of the Trump administration's imposition of huge import duties, which threaten to slow growth and push up prices.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 May 2025
Verb
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Two years later, he was tried again and found guilty of felony murder and second-degree kidnapping.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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That's the alternative by them trying to vote no, and the president believes the Republican Party needs to be unified.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
Verb
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Cleanrooms are key as spacecraft are built and tested: Even tiny particles or contamination can impact delicate instruments and sensitive components.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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The president would have been tested for prostate cancer whilst in office.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
Verb
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As Nuno pointed out, the player of the season award could reasonably have been renamed the ‘team of the season award’ during a campaign in which Forest followed up back-to-back fights against relegation by pushing for Champions League qualification.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Some of the administration's pressure tactics: threatening to take away Harvard's non-profit status, freezing $3 billion in federal grant dollars, barring the university from enrolling foreign students, and pushing Congress to increase taxes on university endowments.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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“Tax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tax. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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