ancillary

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Recent Examples of ancillary Not bad for a company founded by leaders with only ancillary energy experience. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2025 Sports franchises are increasingly conglomerate in nature and often include multiple sports teams, a stadium or arena, ancillary property development, sports adjacent businesses, and more. Chris Deubert, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Grasshopper Film will handle the North American digital and ancillary rights to the film. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025 One key difference between the two bills so far is the upper chamber’s use of the concept known as ancillary assets, which excludes some digital asset transactions from securities regulation. Julia Shapero, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ancillary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancillary
Adjective
  • In magnesium-bearing glass, the formation of secondary minerals slowed the dissolution, creating a dense, protective layer.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Detroit's secondary being decimated by injuries.
    Austin Mock, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The core principle of auxiliary transplantation, Sun says, is to avoid removing all of the patient’s own liver.
    Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
  • At home to Burnley a few days later, Frank’s side were far more considered in their possession, using goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario as an auxiliary centre-back at times when building up, as Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall and Sarr formed a more progressive midfield three.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Moldovan Orthodox Church, which is subordinate to Moscow, has also echoed Kremlin talking points, warning congregants that EU membership would destroy traditions and family values.
    Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Timing is another significant consideration in real estate, with the property’s actual structure being a somewhat subordinate factor.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Google’s subsidiary company already has exclusive distribution rights for the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package in a seven-year, $14 billion tie-up.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Roster status is conferred on NGOs that have a narrower or more technical focus and periodically contribute to the work of ECOSOC or its subsidiary bodies.
    Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Its six LEDs combine three narrow beams with three wide ones at a 23-degree angle, casting a 1,300-lumen punch that lights up about 390 feet (120 m) downrange while still keeping your peripheral lit.
    Joe Salas October 09, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The trio had, in research dating back two decades, uncovered a key pathway the body uses to keep the immune system in check, called peripheral immune tolerance.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The district would also need to create supplementary resources to help teachers incorporate AI into the classroom.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Third, the letter writer and her family might want to consider engaging a geriatric care manager who could help them to identify supplementary services and connections in the local community that could go at least some way to alleviating her isolation.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Today there’s a rich universe of supplemental Pynchon material ranging from prose only an English PhD could unpack, to sharp analysis that makes the experience of reading Pynchon communal and fun.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Fairlead Strategies undertakes no obligation to maintain or update this material based on subsequent information and events or to provide you with any additional or supplemental information or any update to or correction of the information contained herein.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • More prosaically, the relative underperformance of the S & P Small Cap 600 (made up of profitable companies) to the small-cap Russell 2000 (where the majority are unprofitable) offers a nice impression of the race for more marginal names.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, anti-ship training exercises will be conducted in the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea, both marginal seas of the western Pacific.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Ancillary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancillary. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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