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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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That hasn’t stopped companies from throwing millions of dollars in bonuses and pay packages at star researchers, according to seven sources familiar with the matter.—
Anna Tong,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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This note obligates the trust to pay the seller over time, often with interest.—
Andre Pennington,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
Verb
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These range from absorbing the cost, to increasing retail prices to reflect the increase in tariff costs, to asking suppliers to help defray the expense.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2021 included multibillion-dollar grant programs to help small or disadvantaged communities defray costs of addressing PFAS contamination.—
Ignacio Calderon,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Prosecutors claimed that the couple attempted to avoid paying off their debts after Todd Chrisley declared bankruptcy, despite their lavish lifestyle and earnings from the show.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
28 May 2025
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New loans were taken out to pay off the old ones, according to prosecutors, until Todd Chrisley filed for bankruptcy, walking away from more than $20 million in unpaid loans.—
Russ Bynum,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
Verb
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In 2022, when interest rates shot up and Musk liquidated a lot of Tesla stock to fund the Twitter acquisition, the price hit a low of $102.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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As reported last month, Juice Beauty, which was founded in 2005 by Karen Behnke and among the first ones to capitalize on organic beauty and all things clean, is set to liquidate its assets.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
8 May 2025
Verb
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The library will be privately funded and maintained, similar to other presidential libraries in the U.S. Presidential Library System.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
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Five projects in Northwest Arkansas were funded to engage youth in hands-on conservation activities.—
Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
25 May 2025
Verb
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Why not stake your claim right now and begin putting your winter gear into storage or in the far depths of your closet?—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
14 May 2025
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French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is also staking a claim in the residential world.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
12 May 2025
Verb
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Rioters have typically been ordered to pay $500 if found guilty of a misdemeanor or $2,000 if convicted of a felony to the Architect of the Capitol to recompense for the damage.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
13 Apr. 2025
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Our society doesn’t send teenagers to fight each other to the death and watch it on live TV as a form of entertainment and recompense for a long-ago rebellion.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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The explosive expansion of higher education that began after the Second World War was underwritten by federal dollars.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
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The ethics commission says that raises transparency issues that can undermine the public’s trust in government and that other funding mechanisms should be used to pay for business trip not underwritten by taxpayers.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
24 May 2025
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“Grubstake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grubstake. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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