entitlement
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Certificates of entitlement in the small-car category sold for $101,000 at a recent auction, up from around $23,000 in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Breaking that link would “fundamentally change the nature of the program,” said Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Like Scotland, Japan and Germany have systems which base entitlement to personal social care mainly on people's care needs rather than their ability to pay.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Most executives “already are extraordinarily well paid, and I’m not persuaded that the perks are necessary. There’s a whiff of entitlement here—CEOs who say ‘I deserve this.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The character has to project entitlement, a whiff of corrosive self-regard.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Some 95% of that transfer is complete, but negotiations over final entitlements have been stuck for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
More than half of the calls have been about pay and other contractual entitlements while in the war zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Pupils who already have the plans will be able to keep them until at least September 2029, when children will start to have their support entitlements reassessed at the end of primary school and GCSEs.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
The panel has called on leaders to provide extra support for single-parent families, such as more paid leave; and to consider extending existing leave entitlements to grandparents and other family members who take care-giving roles.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
Mark Hargrave was president of the Tecumseh Agricultural and Classical University, to give it its full legal entitlements.
From The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips
Vocabulary lists containing entitlement
A Word's-Eye View of the Primetime GOP Debate (Aug. 6, 2015)
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Top Ten Most Relevant Words from the Third Republican Debate, October 28, 2015
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U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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