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subsidize

[suhb-si-dahyz] / ˈsʌb sɪˌdaɪz /


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Truckers in California are asking the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to subsidize the high costs of owning and operating zero-emission big rigs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

According to the PAC’s website, its members oppose the proposition because they argue it would do little to bring down the cost of housing and instead subsidize high-priced construction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“It does subsidize those that don’t need to be subsidized,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Hyperscale facilities can strain electricity grids, water supplies and local infrastructure, and New York is right to ensure ordinary ratepayers don’t subsidize corporate power use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

“I said I don’t—” “We can tell him the L & J Fund is intended to subsidize writers and actors if you want.”

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

To help make housing affordable, the Singaporean government subsidizes housing by building apartments around the city.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

They deserve a health-insurance marketplace that subsidizes only people who qualify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Americans have largely heard about the famous French creche system of public daycares, but the French government also subsidizes the kind of one-on-one at-home care that many parents of infants prefer.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

It’s not known who subsidizes the low rents at C Street, which is technically a church and doesn’t disclose its backers.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

Inside Jilin Province, China created the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, where forty percent of the population is ethnic Korean and where the government subsidizes Korean-language schools and publications.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

For 60 years, Cuban life revolved around a small well-thumbed ration book used by families to buy subsidized goods in state-run stores.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ferguson, the focus is on a Washington state law that protects access to safe state-licensed youth shelters and subsidized mental healthcare counseling.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Mazariegos wants to use public land to build social housing, which is publicly subsidized housing separate from the rental market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The increases were directed at passenger vehicles filling up beyond their allocated quotas and come after Tehran already cut the monthly subsidized allocations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

A few other general questions were tossed out, and Bobby answered them succinctly and with aplomb, until someone asked whether he was living in an apartment subsidized by the Church.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

If anything, Volkswagen’s global business has been subsidizing uncompetitive German plants for too long, it adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Currently tenants with vouchers subsidizing their rent payments need a government inspection before they can move in.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

“They are systematically subsidizing their industry, and we are picking one product at a time,” VDMA’s Richtberg said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“I think the larger question is: Are we subsidizing bad responses to problems that we know are going to persist?” he said, responding to a question about infrastructure that won’t last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

This subsidizing of the church was the least serious of the injuries inflicted on the cause of the gospel by the piety of the Spanish government.

From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon




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