How to Use defund in a Sentence

defund

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  • Douglas' brother Nick said his death was partly due to a lack of resources for police as part of efforts to defund the police.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2021
  • The executive doesn’t get to defund the people in the legislative branch of government.
    — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 1 June 2021
  • As radical progressives continue to try to defund the police, our families, friends and neighbors have paid the price.
    — Robert L. Woodson Sr., WSJ, 9 June 2021
  • Yang backs a police residency requirement as well as beefed up oversight of the department, but rejects calls to defund the police.
    — Karen Matthews and Michael R. Sisak, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
  • Most pushed to defund the police and invest more in community services, mental health services and education.
    — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2021
  • Moores repeatedly tried to connect Stansbury to national calls to defund the police, a contentious issue among voters.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021
  • The aftermath of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests and defund the police movement also is a complication.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2021
  • But that program has come under fire from Republicans in Congress, who last year tried to defund it even though it was launched by the Trump administration.
    — Sam Whitehead, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • Amid calls to defund the police last year, the City Council made some modest cuts and moved some of the police department’s budget into nondepartmental funds last year.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 June 2021
  • Her crime: Juarez failed to back a goal to defund the police by 50%.
    — Timothy Egan New York Times, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
  • Lawmakers agreed to defund the IWC as part of the deal.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The bills were written in response to efforts to defund the police in cities across the U.S.
    — Dallas News, 21 June 2021
  • There’s still a very strong movement to defund the police, even in the middle of a five-alarm fire.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • A year after mass protests calling to defund the police, we’re set to elect a cop to lead the city.
    — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Biden even countered calls to defund the police in an ode to them.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 15 May 2023
  • That’s because people don’t vote for Democrats to defund things.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Rubio has tried to tie Demings to the far-left’s defund the police movement.
    — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In Idaho, some conservatives now want the state to defund it.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Today, of course, the political wing once most likely to deify the FBI wants to defund it.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • But the drumbeat to defund the police has been drowned out by the reality of rising crime rates in cities around the country.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • The man's death also prompted Indy10 Black Lives Matter to renewed their calls to defund the police.
    — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2022
  • There's police executives around the United States that will tell you that defund the police is over.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Adams also claims to want to save cities from the chaos caused by Democratic Socialists of America and their fight to defund the police and tax the rich.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Could Republican calls to defund the agency boost Democrats in midterm races?
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The campaign also did not say whether Abrams disavowed the group for giving thousands to defund the police activists.
    — Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Republicans called it an attack on free speech and threatened to defund it.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Sweet had been charged with putting together a series of panels for the conference, and one was on movements to defund the police.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The thin blue line flag became most visible in 2020 as a reaction to defund the police movements that swept the country in the wake of the police custody death of George Floyd.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Some issued calls to defund the FBI—an organization that, in their view, needed to be purged.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The presumptive Republican nominee has issued vague but repeated threats to defund public schools that require vaccination for school entry.
    — Julie Sweetland, STAT, 14 June 2024

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