How to Use price support in a Sentence

price support

noun
  • Both are using price supports to shield households from rising costs.
    — Anton L. Delgado, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Both are using price supports to shield households from rising costs.
    — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The loans, at 10 cents per pound, were above the average market price, and served as a form of price support to farmers.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The first price supports to go were for soybeans and cotton on a trial basis in 2014.
    — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • The analysis showed a pattern of bitcoin price support, Griffin said.
    — Matt Robinson and Matthew Leising, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
  • The earnings miss pushed BTI down about 13% to its 50-day moving average, which once again held as key price support.
    — David Keller, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The drug maker has argued that pricing supported further innovative research.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Yet going beyond the initial targets, and keeping prices supported, also serves a number of internal purposes for the kingdom.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • This will only happen when regulatory certainty and price support mechanisms, backed by government, are in place.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Then, the same government responds to the farmers’ plight with a barrage of handouts, price supports, subsidized loans and debt-relief measures for them, which many other countries also do.
    — Krishna Pokharel, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
  • But if Congress doesn't renew the bill by the start of the year or pass a new one, price supports would return to 1940 levels and lead to higher government spending.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Farmers and supporters rally in 1983 in Iowa, seeking price supports for crops and a moratorium on farm foreclosures.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • Washington still has a chance to live up to its concrete commitments on climate finance, sustainable development, food price support, and global governance reform.
    — Bruce Jones, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2022
  • An extension of the suspension of permanent price support authority, which has traditionally been addressed in the Farm Bill, was found to be out of scope.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Much of that goes toward price supports for wheat and rice, but a growing share is going to land consolidation, mechanization, and research and development to improve productivity.
    — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • Yet despite taxpayer funding of these efforts, Azar speculated that vaccines might not be affordable to all and dismissed the idea of using price supports to ensure that poor people would have access to the vaccine.
    — Gavin Yamey, STAT, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Domestic corn production has been boosted by nearly a century of subsidies in the form of direct payments, crop insurance programs, and price supports for American farmers.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025
  • Over the past three decades, Illinois has received $35 billion in farm support — more than any state but Texas and Iowa — mostly through insurance subsidies and price supports for growing corn and soybeans.
    — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Right-wing populist parties have largely benefited from new divisions in the electorate over housing, with people living in areas untouched by the boom in property prices supporting causes like Brexit in greater numbers.
    — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Feb. 2020
  • So far, right-wing populist parties have largely benefited from new divisions in the electorate over housing, with people living in areas untouched by the boom in property prices supporting causes like Brexit in greater numbers.
    — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The permanent price support authority dictates how the government supports the prices of certain agricultural commodities like corn, cotton, rice, and wheat, through loans, purchases, or other operations.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • All through September and October, the price continued to bounce off the 200-day moving average while confirming price support at the early September low.
    — David Keller, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
  • With a broad range of authorities, the CCC could assist farmers today in a number of ways, including using a price support tactic similar to the one employed during the Depression.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The sentiment shift toward price support may be the result of analysts’ expectations that tomorrow’s weekly EIA storage report could see yet another surplus-busting, below-average injection.
    — WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Should industrial demand keep advancing—particularly for renewable energy technologies like photovoltaic cells that utilize significant amounts of silver per unit—price support could persist, enhancing both revenues and margins for producers.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Extending the suspension of permanent price support authority MacDonough pushed back against a Republican measure that sought to extend the suspension of permanent price authority, which has traditionally been a part of the farm bill.
    — Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 26 June 2025

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