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earmark as in:  the senator earmarked the funds

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  • He'd snared a summer job at the Martha Graham library, going through old books and earmarking them for destruction while deciding which should remain on earth in digital form, but he lost this post halfway through its term because he couldn't bear to throw anything out.†  (source)
  • First he withdrew his annual contribution to Historic Savannah—seven thousand dollars, which he'd earmarked for the director's salary.†  (source)
  • Only a thin trickle of food was coming into King's Landing, most of it earmarked for castle and garrison.†  (source)
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  • He'll be quoting Scripture; he probably has some passages already earmarked.†  (source)
  • In these respects, it is perfectly familiar to Hiro: it bears the earmarks of a high-tech product that is still under development.†  (source)
  • They worked two days in the holdingpens branding and earmarking and castrating and dehorning and inoculating.†  (source)
  • I'd take all the money we're sending to the Middle East, where we're trying to pay people to be our friends, and divert it to Canada and earmark it to help raise ducks.†  (source)
  • In a couple of cases he had, in effect, paid their tuition, by giving money to a school fund earmarked for scholarships for those who couldn't afford tuition.†  (source)
  • That would carry over onto the field throughout this season, which at the moment was beginning to have all the earmarks of being very special.†  (source)
  • To make sure these properties were constant throughout the park, Burnham had his chief engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, test locations earmarked for other buildings.†  (source)
  • She might have to take them on a train, and she couldn't ride on a train with her clothing torn, it was one of the earmarks of the fugitive.†  (source)
  • We've taken two articles earmarked for the issue after this one and we're going to fill the gaps with freelance material.†  (source)
  • A statement, I'm aware, that has all the unpleasant earmarks of a build-up, but quite the contrary is true.†  (source)
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