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This source was advising a Maine foundation on how to request an earmark.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
In many cases, Alvendia bypassed that process by persuading states to earmark money for Star Academy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
For example, producers like Shell and BP keep stocks at terminals and refineries around the UK and can earmark stocks held elsewhere as counting towards their reserves.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 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
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
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Her website puts on vivid display, in map and list form, the specific earmarks she has landed.
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
NTU estimates more than $14 billion in earmarks overall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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
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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
Prior to that, money earmarked for scholarships was often expressed in correspondence between benefactors and college presidents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Director John Carney had earmarked Irish actor Cillian Murphy for the role.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
But soon all her earnings, from clerking at Dickson’s Pharmacy to waitressing at the Eat’n Park, were earmarked for a camera, and she spent hours poring over Mr. Wilkinson’s camera catalogs and photography magazines.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
Crypto companies such as Bullish and Gemini Space Station have been among those earmarking a larger chunk of their IPO shares for individual investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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
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