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doughnut hole
noun
- a funding shortfall in the standard drug benefit offered by many Medicare prescription drug plans
Example Sentences
In the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic, civic leaders and landlords pushed to elevate the financial district that Sischo recalled as a 鈥渄oughnut hole鈥 between Bunker Hill 鈥 with its highbrow cultural scene 鈥 and the booming new neighborhood of South Park near Crypto.com Arena and L.A.
Such a proposal would create a 鈥渄oughnut hole鈥 鈥 so-called because of the gap in taxation in the middle of the income distribution.
鈥淏ut we鈥檙e surrounded by the largest state park in California. We鈥檙e a doughnut hole and we can only grow so much. ... Our focus is nature and being a dark skies community. So you won鈥檛 see a lot of up-lighting or neon lights here.鈥
I down half of the cube right away like it鈥檚 a doughnut hole instead of horse food.
The sweet treat, which looks like a doughnut hole, was supposedly invented by a consort of the first king of the Chakri Dynasty, which continues to reign 240 years later.
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