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In his essay, he referenced a local sales-tax earmark that led to teachers in Richland Parish, La., receiving $50,000 bonus checks funded by increased economic activity near the company’s Hyperion data-center campus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

This source was advising a Maine foundation on how to request an earmark.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

Tucked in a $10 billion climate bond on the November ballot is an earmark to improve drinking water quality for communities such as East Orosi.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2024

Calvert said he meets annually with cities across his district and encourages government agencies to submit earmark applications.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

Anderson used his power to earmark municipal funds to clean up the Black Belt’s crumbling sewers and streets.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

That means that Collins’ position atop the Appropriations Committee, and the hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks that come with it, is both a carrot and a stick.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

Could it become tricky to find votes in the Senedd for a budget if Plaid earmarks cash for that exercise?

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

Millions of dollars Tennessee GOP Rep. Chuck Fleischmann scored in earmarks in this year’s appropriations bills—the largest total in the House.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

The April 2025 sale of an IonQ system to a Chattanooga, Tenn., municipal power company, says Wolfpack, was funded two-thirds by IonQ itself, and one-third by the federal earmarks of a Tennessee congressman.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

She might have to take them on a train, and she couldn’t ride on a train with her clothing torn, it was one of the earmarks of the fugitive.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Their replica shirts cost £55, but Spirit have already exhausted the supply they had earmarked for both 2026 and 2027.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

It looked like the prospects for the bike route to the sea were getting serious after Angelenos enthusiastically passed a half-cent tax for transit projects in 2016 that earmarked $365 million for the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

The makeshift settlement, long earmarked for demolition, was founded by residents evicted in Seoul's redevelopment drive ahead of the 1988 Olympic Games.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The Pentagon on Wednesday earmarked more than $120 billion for contractors to step up production of Patriot missiles and long-delayed submarines to support future combat operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

About a quarter of one’s salary had to be earmarked for voluntary subscriptions, which were so numerous that it was difficult to keep track of them.

From "1984" by George Orwell

At the U.N., the Trump administration has begun to channel aid money through a single department established to manage emergencies, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, earmarking $3.8 billion so far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The company, according to Reuters, is earmarking as much as 30% of shares for retail investors and scheduling a meeting with 1,500 of them at an event in June, once its IPO roadshow kicks off.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026

In the Budget it said it would raise the age limit to cover under-25s, earmarking £725m for the scheme over the next three years.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

But starting in the mid-2000s under President George W. Bush, the U.S. began earmarking federal dollars for dioxin remediation in Vietnam to clean up the contamination sites and the two nations’ troubled relationship.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025

To conclude a separate peace with that Power is become a pressing, and would also be a feasible, task were it not that this earmarking of Constantinople for Russia constitutes an impassable barrier.

From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes