How to Use unfunded in a Sentence

unfunded

adjective
  • Investors threw her plan for huge unfunded tax cuts back in her face.
    — Mark Thompson, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Chow, and her students, took the project on as an unfunded labor of love.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But the plan was unfunded, causing the pound and government bonds to crash.
    — Jens Larsen, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This would be an unfunded mandate paid for by consumers who don’t want and won’t use the devices.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The second tier, yet unfunded, would get into specifics on smaller chunks of the project.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 16 June 2022
  • An unfunded buy-sell is a promise without a checkbook.
    — Andre Pennington, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • That doesn't mean that other things won't go unfunded however.
    — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
  • After that, unfunded parts of the state government will begin to shut down.
    — Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
  • However, further unfunded tax cuts would add to the nation’s deficits and debt.
    — Ron Insana, CNBC, 27 July 2024
  • Over the past year, thousands of grants have been frozen, terminated or left unfunded.
    — Todd L. Pittinsky, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Manly said that at this point, the agreement is unfunded and incomplete.
    — NBC News, 15 July 2021
  • The measure was unfunded but has created more felony cases working their way through the courts.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Construction on the larger project is still unfunded.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This leaves them overburdened, over worked, and saddled with unfunded mandates.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Indeed, the project remained unfunded for the first eight years, surviving just on lab members’ spare time.
    — WIRED, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Congress had a role from unfunded mandates to letting the place run with an empty board of governors.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • As a public entity, there are a lot of things that are mandated for schools, and most of those mandates are unfunded.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland.com, 23 July 2019
  • Retirement is unfunded and the kids' college savings raided to pay bills.
    — Author: Charles Wohlforth | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In fact, Moody’s was quite clear that Maryland’s future unfunded mandates were the main cause.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2025
  • The state’s unfunded pension liabilities have been a sore thumb for decades.
    — Kevin Bessler | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 July 2024
  • This project — which sought $12 million, largely for sidewalks — is still unfunded.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Congress or the state should provide grants for this new, unfunded mandate to local governments.
    — George Brauchler, The Denver Post, 14 June 2020
  • Some communities may bristle at the idea of an unfunded mandate if the state does not provide funding.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Not another unfunded ‘save the children’ mandate that sounds well intentioned but isn’t well thought out.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 3 May 2017
  • The unfortunate implication of that is a long-term unfunded problem that the city now faces.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Without agreement on a new formula, there may be no payment this year, and a wide variety of state programs could go unfunded.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The state is also consistently listed as the highest tax state with the largest unfunded long-term debt and worst credit rating.
    — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Equally reckless, unfunded promises have been made to victims of decades-old child abuse, with few safeguards against fraudulent claims.
    — George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2026
  • After all, the new pension law is an unfunded mandate — a requirement now established in the law, with the entire cost borne by the city.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The fourth tier is the one yet unfunded, a bike and pedestrian bridge stretching from Lippold Park across the river to the west bank.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 14 Jan. 2022

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