How to Use subsidize in a Sentence

subsidize

verb
Definition of subsidizenext
Synonyms for subsidizenext
  • The state subsidizes housing for low-income families.
  • She feels that private businesses should not be subsidized by taxpayers.
  • The company subsidizes health insurance for its employees.
  • Some of the revenue helps subsidize the cost of living in St. Paul.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • At the time, the two studio projects teamed up to lobby for the bill, which would have subsidized both.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The 22 percent service fee is, in a way, asking the customer to subsidize some of the costs, Flay says.
    — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The top 16 or 20 football programs subsidize the rest of the Power Four schools.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The city continues to pursue grants and loans to help subsidize the project.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The city plans to subsidize the project built on land known as the Jacksonville Shipyards with more than $100 million in tax dollars.
    — Mark Long, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Milton Friedman had an idea 20 years ago: Tax the schools rather than subsidize them.
    — Richard Vedder, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Amount the French government will subsidize the purchase of a new EV.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 5 July 2023
  • The state of Ohio is crafting an incentive package to help subsidize the project.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • The state is supposed to subsidize imports, but the crisis has strained that system, too.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The solutions should be not to subsidize what has always been done.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • All of them are excused, most of them applauded, many of them subsidized.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 6 May 2024
  • Could taxpayers, expected to subsidize the project to the tune of $1.35 billion, be on the hook for even more if the project goes belly-up?
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The price of utilities are up so much that Utahns are juggling side gigs to subsidize the increase in cost for basic needs.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And the public is subsidizing much (over eight times) more of the transportation-fuel E-85 mix.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The state began to subsidize purchase of fuel cell cars.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • To cope, James said she's taken out two private loans through payday lenders to subsidize her bills.
    — Ryan Tarinelli, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Grant money might help subsidize costs in the trial, but that isn’t a long-term solution.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • So for years, U.S. Soccer has subsidized nanny care on road trips.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • The Downey Unified School District helped subsidize financing for the game.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • That program, which is subsidized by FEMA, is now more than $20 billion in debt.
    — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • So, will hotels raise rates and let single guests subsidize the room with multiple guests?
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The southern states are also engines of economic growth and end up subsidizing the poorer states of the north.
    — Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • In our view, the blue bloods will refuse to subsidize everyone else, and unequal revenue sharing will become the norm.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024
  • Energy prices are so high here that the government stepped in to cap and subsidize home heating bills so that people wouldn’t freeze in their flats.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The vaccine is not subsidized in Egypt, leaving it as a luxury only the wealthy can afford.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Shortly after the trade, Rodgers agreed to take a $33.7 million pay cut over two seasons, allowing the Jets to further subsidize the roster.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024

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