sinking fund

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Recent Examples of sinking fund Goal setting and category tracking YNAB is well-equipped to help its users set and track financial goals, such as building a sinking fund for car maintenance. Amy Deyoung, USA Today, 17 June 2026 The Innovation Grant money could finance that sinking fund, according to Ruggini. Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 17 Nov. 2025 For those who attend multiple weddings per year, a wedding guest sinking fund is probably a good idea. Nerdwallet, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025 Borrowers may look to sinking funds as a way to help plan for potential student loan debt cancellation. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sinking fund
Noun
  • Why private credit may avoid a ‘crisis-apocalypse’ Blackstone’s scale attracts outsized scrutiny, and investors’ attempts to pull money from its private credit funds earlier this year made headline news.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • About half of the capital funds will go toward replacing two fire engines and adding a new one, while the rest will be used to purchase new equipment for the department.
    Gabriel Brito, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 28 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • By the Labor Department’s own math, 1% in additional fees can shrink a nest egg at retirement by 28%.
    Teddy Amenabar, ProPublica, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Robbie’s kids at least have Robbie’s niece, Maeve (Emilia Jones,) and a nest egg, but there’s a strong argument that no one actually won here.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Fifty-something years later, Rush remains a North American treasure.
    Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The steward of this American treasure since the patriarch died in 2013, Jeanie Buss dug in her Christian Louboutin heels in a fight to keep her family in the hierarchy of the purple and gold.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • An underwriter is not simply adding up deposits and calling it a day.
    Karen Koehler, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The next chief executive will need to accelerate growth, improve deposit mobilization and returns, and rebuild confidence around governance and senior-management stability, global brokerage Nomura said in a report on Sunday.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026

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“Sinking fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sinking%20fund. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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