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FUNDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furnished with funds
Example:
well-funded research
Classified under:
Antonym:
unfunded (not furnished with funds)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fund
Context examples:
While immune cells called neutrophils are known to act as infantry in the body’s war on germs, a National Institutes of Health-funded study suggests they can act as medics as well.
(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)
The experiments were funded by national research organizations in the United States and China and the government of Brazil.
(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)
Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of Jupiter, condensing as ice, according to a new study by NASA-funded researchers.
(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)
CHAI Foundation finds and funds credentialed researchers who are under funded because their theories do not fit into the mold of current group-think or who are overlooked in favor of younger researchers.
(CHAI Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)
It is affiliated with the Virginia Commonwealth University and has been funded by an NCI Cancer Center Support Grant since 1975.
(Massey Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Project started in 1993 under Public Law 103-43 and is funded and coordinated by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
(Long Island Breast Cancer Study, NCI Thesaurus)
The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD).
(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)
Grants are funded based on scientific merit, program relevance, and program balance and are made annually.
(Cancer Center Support Grant Application, NCI Thesaurus)
Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new analysis by NASA-funded researchers.
(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)
The Cow was first observed by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System telescope in Hawaii.
(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)
