sinking fund

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Recent Examples of sinking fund For those who attend multiple weddings per year, a wedding guest sinking fund is probably a good idea. Nerdwallet, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025 Anyone who does qualify for student loan forgiveness could use a sinking fund to pay your taxes. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025 Start a sinking fund This time of year can be expensive because everything piles up at once. Emmie Martin, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024 In Royal Oak, voters decisively approved the renewal of a millage that funds the school district's sinking fund. Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2022 If approved, village will add $3,371 annually to a sinking fund so the shades can be replaced when needed. Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022 But sinking funds into that pipeline would be a major gamble. Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sinking fund
Noun
  • The 2025 shutdown has occurred because Democrats want to see extensions of tax credits and continued spending on health agencies, both actions which come directly out of federal government funds.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • If approved for release, the $15 million in planning funds will start with examining the Green Bay Correctional and Waupun Correctional Institutions, where there have been several deaths in recent years.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The proceeds from the sale will be used to rebuild my black-boot nest egg, which has run low of late due to unfavorable market conditions.
    Alyssa Brandt, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This approach could ease worries about nest eggs by extending income across a longer stretch.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The treasure was found in the ancient city of Hippos near the Sea of Galilee in July.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Having analyzed the treasure, the study authors now postulate that the diversity that would come to define the Scythian animal style might reflect different social groups utilizing and adapting the theme for funerary rituals.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Shea Carney's house, those beverage bottles and cans eligible for a 10-cent deposit return have become more of a nuisance than a useful income boost.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Bank lobbyists say these terminals being closed to penny deposits is exacerbating the penny shortage, because parts of the country that may have some surplus pennies are unable to get those pennies to parts of country with shortages.
    Ken Sweet, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025

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