trust fund

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Recent Examples of trust fund The Social Security Administration’s actuaries have found repealing the retirement earnings test will ultimately reduce trust fund costs, Adcock said. Lorie Konish, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026 The retirement trust fund faces a shortfall as soon as 2032. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026 The disbursement from the benefit trust fund never materialized, and special education costs continued to accelerate. Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 23 Apr. 2026 Social Security Isn’t Vanishing The program’s primary trust fund is projected to face depletion by 2032 without legislative action, but depletion doesn’t mean elimination. Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trust fund
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trust fund
Noun
  • Across its work, Quail Group continues to emphasize that operational improvement benefits from a clear understanding of both systems and human behavior.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Some of their posts hawking these bulbs get millions of views, which might have more to do with how orange pops on a blue screen than with the health benefits.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, which has complained about state aid for decades, was very happy about the latest development.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • While defeating the two measures has relieved many property owners in South Hadley, budget shortfalls due to dwindling state aid and fading federal pandemic-era funds are causing local governments to search high and low for new sources of funding.
    Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • When their owner and driver are killed in a crash, the owner’s widow, Virginia, must rally her fractured family to save the team, protect their legacy, and chase a championship.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2026
  • That legacy has held strong for generations.
    Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Still, without corrective action, city staff warned those funds could drop if no changes are made to current spending and revenues to roughly 2% by June 2027, falling below the city’s policy on maintaining a 10% minimum in reserves in case of unexpected costs or revenue shortfalls.
    Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • Those total funds will represent about 49% of equity in that new company, exceeding the current foreign ownership cap of 25%.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Africa is facing a hunger crisis as soaring food costs sparked by the Iran war compound the toll of foreign aid cuts and erratic weather that has already devastated crops.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Karex’s condom stockpiles have decreased due to significant cuts in foreign aid spending.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In October, plans for the Snug Harbor Surf Park, along with a 50-foot-tall building for a surf academy, shop and restaurant, were given approvals by city officials who granted a general plan amendment to expand the allowance for the development from 20,000 square feet to nearly 60,000 square feet.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • Then there are optional claiming races, which mix allowance conditions with the option to run a horse for a claiming price.
    Neil Greenberg, New York Times, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • This investment will not only expand educational opportunities for generations of students but also bolster a pooled endowment fund for all 37 of our member institutions.
    Ed Smith-Lewis, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • Botstein did not mention Epstein by name in his retirement announcement, which touted his role in Bard’s $1 billion endowment campaign, which was completed in January.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Turkey shored up this power, its military and mercenaries and economic might and arms sales and technological advances, resembling its long-time ally the United States, as much as Russia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, or Iran.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The center will be powered by the IBM Quantum System Two, a modular computer that combines quantum and classical architecture to explore the nearly incalculable advances in technology the new field may bring.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026

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“Trust fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trust%20fund. Accessed 5 May. 2026.

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