foy

Definition of foynext
chiefly Scottish

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Noun
  • That Dalglish’s vast contribution in Liverpool’s domination of English football over the previous decade would have helped him in sticky spots is a reminder that Slot has little to fall back on.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • During his deposition, Musk was called out for inflating his early contributions to OpenAI.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The developers would also pledge $2 million to the city’s Housing Trust Fund, which provides grant funding to affordable housing projects — in line with Port KC policy requiring projects that don’t set aside affordable units to pay $5,000 per unit into the Housing Trust Fund.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The unrestricted grant resurrects the spirt of the AIDS Treatment Project, which Giorno started when the epidemic left so many artists in need beginning in the early ’80s.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • After sending Dalton a care package filled with surprises, including a gift card for more of his favorite meal, the company decided to take it a step further.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Her mom sent her a care package, but when Deiaco-Smith went to pick it up from the post office, there was a language barrier with the attendant.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The push coincides with an emerging Christian subculture, from churches allowing congregants to tithe with digital coins to blogs promoting bitcoin as biblically sound.
    Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Druski is then seen standing before the congregation, sharing news that Collect & Praise Ministries is branching out into Motherland, before encouraging tithes and donations for the cause.
    Christine Imarenezor, VIBE.com, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • To forget or exceed herself takes the form of erotic dissolution and spiritual oblation.
    Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • His father also contributed to oblation research in 1988.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • And then the Chinese government used the conversion to pure EVs to end subsidies, to change the level playing field, to tilt it in the local OEMs’ favor.
    Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Stadiums are notorious for their lack of multiplier impact, which is one reason these days why sports team owners, such as the McCaskey family that controls the Bears, have such a hard time hoodwinking governments into giving them direct subsidies to build their stadiums.
    David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Visitors can take the shuttle over to Bar Harbor for a variety of restaurants, inns and tourist offerings without leaving Mount Desert Island.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
  • To date, more than $200 million—or 50 percent—of the club’s real-estate offerings have been sold.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Residents also grew frustrated, as migrants reluctantly snared in endless court proceedings appeared to be gaming the system and living off the taxpayers’ dole.
    Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
  • By placing them on the foreign-aid dole, U.S. officials know that foreign officials will do their bidding when called upon to do so.
    Jacob Hornberger, Orange County Register, 12 May 2024
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“Foy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foy. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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