How to Use subsidy in a Sentence

subsidy

noun
  • The city is increasing subsidies for public transit.
  • The subsidy war has taken a big toll.
    — Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Those subsidies are due to stop at the end of this year.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This is a project that requires subsidy.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Sunak kept up the pace and the flow of subsidies for the next two years.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In some states, there is a wait list to receive a child care subsidy.
    — Beth Kania-Gosche, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Others will see their subsidy shrink.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • What happens when the subsidy ends?
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year.
    — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The 16e’s price might push more people to go for the subsidy.
    — Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2025
  • That law funded the subsidies for two years.
    — Sally C. Pipes, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • For now, the subsidy argument cuts both ways.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • First, the basics of how the subsidies work.
    — Julie Appleby, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The current subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year.
    — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • It was denied state subsidies, records show.
    — Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Rogers and one of the project’s investors spoke in favor of the subsidies.
    — Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Parents then apply through their state to receive a subsidy.
    — Beth Kania-Gosche, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The issue isn’t speed or subsidies.
    — Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The exams cost $99 each without a fee subsidy.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Democrats are pushing to extend the subsidies as part of a deal to end the shutdown.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
  • What’s still unclear, though, is how much more of a public subsidy the rest of the project will now require.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Presumably, child care subsidies would be on the menu.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The deal includes a promise to vote on the health care subsidies in the future.
    — Erin Glynn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Day cares that accept the subsidies could face the risk of layoffs or closures.
    — Geoff Mulvihill, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The House set to vote on a three-year extension of those subsidies.
    — NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Not on a single income, and not without a subsidy that doesn’t exist for them.
    — Jonathan Tower, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • In Kenya, a plan to cut fuel subsidies has led to widespread protest.
    — TIME, 30 July 2024
  • Last year, the state child care office raised the income limits to receive a subsidy.
    — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2024

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