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as in contribution
a gift of money or its equivalent to a charity, humanitarian cause, or public institution
a generous donation to the orphanage from an anonymous benefactor
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as in gift
something given to someone without expectation of a return
a chocolate cake was my donation to the office party
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Recent Examples of donation
That will leave the teams to rely solely on financial support from the Undergraduate Student Government, UConn Foundation donations and their own fundraising.
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Katie Servas, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
Overall, the program has leveraged more than $510 million in private donations and supported tens of thousands of affordable homes statewide.
—Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
As part of the aid package, the US has offered the donation of Starlink terminals that would expand connectivity on the island but also break the Cuban government’s monopoly on the internet.
—Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
The tree-planting is part of a celebration of TransPak’s $500,000 donation to One Tree Planted, which enabled the planting of 400,000 trees in Northern California forests impacted by wildfires this past January and Februrary.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
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Katie Servas, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
Overall, the program has leveraged more than $510 million in private donations and supported tens of thousands of affordable homes statewide.
—Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
As part of the aid package, the US has offered the donation of Starlink terminals that would expand connectivity on the island but also break the Cuban government’s monopoly on the internet.
—Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
The tree-planting is part of a celebration of TransPak’s $500,000 donation to One Tree Planted, which enabled the planting of 400,000 trees in Northern California forests impacted by wildfires this past January and Februrary.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for donation
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Though OpenAI was making progress on research and development, Musk had demanded that Altman and other co-founders, including Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, make a list of employees and their key contributions, and fire everyone who didn't immediately make the grade, filings show.—
Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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Because those contributions are deducted at the 37% rate, the IRS subsidizes another $8,510.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Boston Herald,
18 May 2026
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As previously noted, one of the gifts of Russian greats that Saunders most celebrates is their way of locating complex truths in the stuff of ordinary lives—their towns and farms, and their families, their servants; their animals.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Doing it for the first time is always a celebration and doing it at Critics’ Week is an immense gift because of the care the film receives from the moment it is invited.—
Roberto Prieto,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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While eating at the company cafe after the presentation, Otone and Kensuke meet a child version of a humanoid who’s been brought back to REbirth HQ for maintenance.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
17 May 2026
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In a presentation for young athletes — and for the pro teams and college athletic departments that might invite him to speak — Stripling’s firm uses his story of a baseball prospect that got a $900,000 up-front payment and spent the $500,000 after taxes on a red Lamborghini.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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This is complicity spurred on by a certain kind of Western readers desire to maintain their romantic image of Russia’s past without having to engage critical with Russia’s present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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At present, that additional tuition for nonresident students is the same across the UC’s nine general campuses.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
18 May 2026
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“Donation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/donation. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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