Example Sentences

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The report, which was filed with Companies House in April 2022, continued: "Investor money may have been funding substantial losses over a considerable period of time."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

States in the compact have been funding efforts to boost snowfall by releasing silver iodide from airplanes and ground-based devices in Wyoming and elsewhere in the Rocky Mountains.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Large water districts, including the Metropolitan Water District and the Santa Clara Valley Water District in San Jose, have been funding the planning of the tunnel system for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Federal investigators were also alarmed, Lelling says, by how Lieber “brazenly” hid that relationship from Harvard and from the federal agencies that for decades have been funding his research on inorganic nanowires.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 3, 2020

I’m not an expert on the region, but in the one country I know a little bit about, Pakistan, I know that the Saudis have been funding bad actors there—

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2017