as in financed
to provide money for
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Recent Examples of bankrolled
From there, Constantin bankrolled the movie for around $20M net, with the pic shot in South Africa due to lower below-the-line costs.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
About $20 million of the Bright Future Fund’s 2024 expenditures went to Future Forward USA Action, the main dark money group that bankrolled pro-Harris ads during that year’s election.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 10 Feb. 2026
Others are bankrolled by wealthy families or networks of private investors.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
Further complicating matters, the project is bankrolled by the Indiana Finance Authority, which expects future tenants of LEAP to pay for the project.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 6 Feb. 2026
These proposals are backed and bankrolled by out-of-state interests, including New York hedge funds, seeking to fundamentally remake vast tracts of Florida without playing by local rules or paying the full costs of growth.
—Sean Parks, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
Silicon Valley interests had, after all, largely bankrolled the later phases of the cannabis legalization effort in California.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Within the leftist movement that propelled Johnson, cracks between the Chicago Teachers Union and Service Employees International Union team that primarily bankrolled his first run look more like a clean break.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
Some, like Meta, which is both building its own data centers and leasing them from other firms, are bankrolled by cash-cow revenue streams.
—Phoebe Liu, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
About $20 million of the Bright Future Fund’s 2024 expenditures went to Future Forward USA Action, the main dark money group that bankrolled pro-Harris ads during that year’s election.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 10 Feb. 2026
Others are bankrolled by wealthy families or networks of private investors.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Feb. 2026
Further complicating matters, the project is bankrolled by the Indiana Finance Authority, which expects future tenants of LEAP to pay for the project.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 6 Feb. 2026
These proposals are backed and bankrolled by out-of-state interests, including New York hedge funds, seeking to fundamentally remake vast tracts of Florida without playing by local rules or paying the full costs of growth.
—Sean Parks, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
Silicon Valley interests had, after all, largely bankrolled the later phases of the cannabis legalization effort in California.
—Scott Eden, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Within the leftist movement that propelled Johnson, cracks between the Chicago Teachers Union and Service Employees International Union team that primarily bankrolled his first run look more like a clean break.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
Some, like Meta, which is both building its own data centers and leasing them from other firms, are bankrolled by cash-cow revenue streams.
—Phoebe Liu, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrolled
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If top-level soccer is now played by something like rootless cosmopolitans, it’s financed by billionaires who are no longer primarily European.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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As automobile production transformed Detroit into one of the wealthiest industrial cities in the country, fortunes made in manufacturing financed the construction of grand estates throughout neighborhoods such as Palmer Woods and Boston-Edison.—
Brendel Clark,
Freep.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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The boarding schools were launched and funded by the federal government, but Native Americans maintain that the state and local communities supported the schools.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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The event had been organized by a man named Wolf Tivy, the founder of a futurist magazine rumored to be funded by the libertarian entrepreneur Peter Thiel.—
James Duesterberg,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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The center also runs its own preschools, some of them state-subsidized, and maintains a waitlist for low-income families waiting for subsidized care.—
CalMatters,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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Residents attest to pest infestation, mold and mildew in their units at the 297-unit apartment complex — privately owned but federally subsidized.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Bankrolled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrolled. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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