Get to know Defunding better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Defunding meaning
present participle and gerund of defund
Using Defunding
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of defund
- In the example corpus, defunding often appears in combinations such as: defunding the, of defunding, for defunding.
Context around Defunding
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Defunding
- In this selection, "defunding" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, opposes, currently, involve, planned, important and resolution stand out and add context to how "defunding" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abortion and defunding planned parenthood and and currently defunding the aurors. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "defunding" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and accountancy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with defunding
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Defunding and abolishing the Denver Police Department. (7 words)
No one is calling for the defunding of the APD. (10 words)
Also, the Biden-Harris ticket is totally opposed to defunding. (10 words)
Committing to defunding the police without a plan to replace them with something better is one of the dumbest things the left has done in my lifetime and as such it should be used as an object lesson of for many years to come. (44 words)
Common-sense criminal justice reform doesn’t involve “defunding” the police, handing repeat criminals a “get out of jail free” card, normalizing anti-social behavior or turning a blind eye to victims. (32 words)
Much like Congresswoman Cori Bush who is the loudest mouth in Congress about defunding the police yet spends literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on her personal private security detail. (30 words)
Do you think that should be something that’s coming up more, or should there be more focus on limits to abortion and defunding Planned Parenthood? (26 words)
Are you in favor of defunding the police and redirecting funds to other social entities in the community? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
While he says that he opposes defunding the police, his actions say the opposite—and those actions with many in his party who do call for defunding the police.
Above all, I have the Wizarding World that lives on in my heart — queer, genderqueer, deviant, diverse, and currently defunding the Aurors.
Committing to defunding the police without a plan to replace them with something better is one of the dumbest things the left has done in my lifetime and as such it should be used as an object lesson of for many years to come.
Common-sense criminal justice reform doesn’t involve “defunding” the police, handing repeat criminals a “get out of jail free” card, normalizing anti-social behavior or turning a blind eye to victims.
Defunding and abolishing the Denver Police Department.
Democrats’ hatred for and defunding of cops has fomented much of the crime they now decry.
Do you think that should be something that’s coming up more, or should there be more focus on limits to abortion and defunding Planned Parenthood?
Much like Congresswoman Cori Bush who is the loudest mouth in Congress about defunding the police yet spends literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on her personal private security detail.
Reese also called for defunding the police and diverting funding in community violence prevention and job development programs.
Tecle says opening the conversation of defunding the police gives space to the thought of how society might operate without police.
A June debt-limit negotiation would be brutal, and Johnson has shown no ability to see it through without defunding important aspects of Trump’s agenda.
Harris formerly endorsed the concept of “defunding the police” and GEO could find its finances seriously challenged in a potential Harris administration.
No one is calling for the defunding of the APD.
Regardless of material realities, police continue to secure massive budget increases while almost every service necessity crumbles due to defunding and neglect.
This isn’t a question of defunding the police — it’s about funding some of the most promising community-led innovations in municipal governance in recent decades.
Also, the Biden-Harris ticket is totally opposed to defunding.
And that’s hard to hold, you know, for people talking about defunding the police—that, in a situation with no police and no prisons, justice will be more intimate.
A new statewide Crosscut/Elway poll shows support for police reform, but fear of defunding the police.
Are you in favor of defunding the police and redirecting funds to other social entities in the community?
As the village board meeting was getting underway that day, protesters gathered at Fox Park, 624 S. Oak Park Ave., in support of the defunding resolution.
Common combinations with defunding
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- defunding the 39×
- of defunding 10×
- for defunding 7×
- defunding of 6×
- about defunding 6×
- the defunding 5×
- to defunding 4×
- and defunding 4×
- defunding and 3×
- support defunding 3×