Example Sentences

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They argued that the city’s budget has been subsidizing the cost of residential trash pickup for customers in single-family homes and small apartments.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

During a stop in Alaska on her flight to China, Ms. Yellen said that she would not rule out ways to protect the industries that the United States has been subsidizing.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024

But those building blocks are cheap because of the inherent qualities of the plant, not because the government has been subsidizing them for decades.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Don’t forget about tax breaks The US government has been subsidizing the purchase of EV and plug-in hybrid vehicles to help encourage more people to ditch their old fossil fuel-burning cars for cleaner transportation.

From The Verge • Aug. 2, 2017

Let's be realistic - the tax payer has been subsidizing the rail network for decades anyway 452.

From BBC • May 16, 2013