How to Use subsidy in a Sentence

subsidy

noun
  • The city is increasing subsidies for public transit.
  • Sunak kept up the pace and the flow of subsidies for the next two years.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The 16e’s price might push more people to go for the subsidy.
    — Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Yet this is the very point of the subsidies, Mr. Yavar added.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • But Trump has promised to put a freeze on the IRA’s grants and subsidies.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 25 July 2024
  • But the Cityride subsidy was tied to the franchise system.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • In economic terms, the flip side of a subsidy is a penalty.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This subsidy expansion will expire at the end of the year.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This year ten films receive the Film Sales Support subsidy.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • If the premium for the 2022 benchmark plan declines, then the subsidy amount could too.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Last year, the state child care office raised the income limits to receive a subsidy.
    — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In Kenya, a plan to cut fuel subsidies has led to widespread protest.
    — TIME, 30 July 2024
  • To qualify for the subsidy, an applicant must be at least 55 years old and the head of household.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The subsidy better be good, though, as 50-seat jets are not the most economic airplanes out there.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • Those who make more than $2,000 a month receive no subsidies.
    — Jordan Rau, Fortune Well, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In the years since, Bertrand has suspended the annual regional subsidy due to the school.
    — Anna Rabemanantsoa, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • With rents rising faster than wages, especially at the bottom, the cost of the subsidy keeps rising.
    — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • And given high prices for EVs, subsidies are mainly a giveaway to the already well-off.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Transport costs have risen sharply since the end of fuel subsidies was announced weeks ago.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 7 July 2023
  • What are the policies in the U.S. that are creating that weight towards a carbon tax rather than a carbon subsidy?
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2023
  • This bonus is distributed on top of the subsidy producers receive from the CNC.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The board could still increase tuition ahead of the coming school year if the state budget subsidy is not sufficient.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The subsidies, which expire next year, have made health plans affordable to a wide range of people and have even made some plans free.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The state uses two rates, depending on the subsidy program.
    — Grace Gedye, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The suit claims the subsidy is worth about $7 million and violates the state Constitution's gift clause.
    — AZCentral.com, 24 May 2022
  • The grant program is the state’s main tuition subsidy for low-income students and amounts to millions of dollars at many schools.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Is the administration considering any kind of offset, any kind of subsidy?
    — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The food purchase and Farm to School programs acted as subsidies, allowing farmers to have reliable income at retail prices while helping organizations like food banks.
    — Nora O’Neill, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025

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