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• Donors might be miffed to find that a magnificent gift was not earmarked for rescue.2021 November 27, “In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices”, in The Economist. From the entry miffed
• Contrawise, there are cases in which the longer text has the earmarks of conflation.2013, Jack R. Lundbom, Writing Up Jeremiah: The Prophet and the Book, page 3. From the entry contrawise
• Earmarks—those undebated dipperfuls of taxpayer-financed contracts that tripled under the Republicans—will undoubtedly return in the new budget.2007 February 3, “A rare bill in Congress”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry dipperful
• Police said his shooting had the earmarks of a professional job.1997, Ian Macdonald, Betty O'Keefe, The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take, page 37. From the entry take for a ride
• Leopard 2s, Challengers and Abrams M-1s have been earmarked for Ukraine and are vastly superior to the Russian main battle tanks.2023 February 20, Tim Lister, “After nearly one year of war, how Ukraine defied the odds — and may still defeat Russia”, in CNN. From the entry M-1
• The use of an underframework, so to speak, of parallel or crosshatched lines is the best earmark of this ware.2000, Alfred Vincent Kidder, An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology, page 224. From the entry underframework
• Money earmarked for services and repairs often found its way to payroll, to put yet more unskilled workers on the clock.1997 August 18, Tamala Edwards, James Carney, “Disaster on the Potomac: How not to run a city”, in Time. From the entry on the clock
• Meta has invested heavily in generative AI, with the majority of its planned $72bn in capital expenditure this year earmarked for data centres and servers.2025 June 14, “Meta invests $15bn in scale AI as it builds ‘superintelligence’ team”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London…. From the entry capital expenditure
• First, if no major losses occur each year, $2 million returns to NCIUA—earmarked exclusively to incentivize homeowners to install super roofs that are especially wind-resistant.2025 December 1, Leslie Kaufman, “How ‘Super Roofs’ Reward Insurers, Cat Bond Investors and Homeowners. Investors snapped up a catastrophe…. From the entry cat bond
• They were earmarks by another name.2013, Walter J. Oleszek, Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process, page 61. From the entry phonemark
• But several of the wines I'd already earmarked as winners turned out to be made either purely or in part with biodynamics.2009, Alice Feiring, The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, HMH, →ISBN. From the entry biodynamics
• Earmarks supplement brands for owner identification.1966, S. Omar Barker, chapter 3, in Little World Apart, page 38. From the entry hair up
• When a cow critter gets all haired up in a thick winter coat, a brand gets harder to read than an earmark.1966, S. Omar Barker, chapter 3, in Little World Apart, page 38. From the entry hair up

Meaning of earmark

1. noun A mark made or tag attached to the ear of an animal (chiefly a livestock animal), generally to identify or indicate something about the animal, such as ownership, health or gestation status, etc.
2. noun A distinguishing or identifying mark or sign; specifically (archaic), a mark of ownership.
3. noun An act of designating certain funds to be used for a specific purpose.

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How do you use earmark in a sentence?

Earmark is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.”

What is a short sentence with earmark?

“Earmarks supplement brands for owner identification.”

What does earmark mean?

Earmark means a mark made or tag attached to the ear of an animal (chiefly a livestock animal), generally to identify or indicate something about the animal, such as ownership, health or gestation status, etc.