as in subsidy
a sum of money allotted for a specific use by official or formal action
his grandfather's will provided him with an annuity of $5,000 a year to be used for school expenses
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Recent Examples of annuity
The jackpot prize is $6,800,00 annuity, or $4,095,197 in ticket cash value, according to the CT Lottery’s website.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
Combine the 100-plus union welfare funds and annuity funds, freeing massive amounts in administrative costs.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026
The case against two former Munster school administrators accused of engineering a scheme to overpay themselves $850,000 largely in retirement annuities may be headed for a civil trial.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
Georgia does not tax Social Security benefits, though income from annuities, pensions, dividends, and capital gains is taxable.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2026
Combine the 100-plus union welfare funds and annuity funds, freeing massive amounts in administrative costs.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026
The case against two former Munster school administrators accused of engineering a scheme to overpay themselves $850,000 largely in retirement annuities may be headed for a civil trial.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
Georgia does not tax Social Security benefits, though income from annuities, pensions, dividends, and capital gains is taxable.
—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for annuity
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That shutdown ended with a promise to vote on extending the subsidies, which failed.—
Riley Beggin,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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As with the subsidies, public outcry pushed a number of Republicans and Democrats to pledge to do something — in this case, reining in enforcement tactics.—
Sam Gringlas,
NPR,
13 Feb. 2026
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These grants can cover cleanups and sustainable cultivation projects, or even related efforts such as fish conservation.—
Rachel Becker,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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An organization working to prevent HIV infections is among the Colorado recipients that will lose federal funding after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled grants to four states led by Democratic governors.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
11 Feb. 2026
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Much of the tribe’s revenues are used to pay for these services and infrastructure on the reservation, as well as the repurchasing of land on the reservation that was lost to non-tribal entities during the era of allotment from the late 1800s until about the mid-1900s.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Another option for the Heat could be converting the contracts of their two-way players to standard deals, with Myron Gardner, Jahmir Young and Vlad Goldin currently holding the team’s allotment of three two-way deals.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Annuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annuity. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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